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Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.
I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.
If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.
...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time.
The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.
Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.
Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.
Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.
Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.
Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.