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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
I tip my hat to the long list of girls that have really taken wrestling up a notch.
'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.
To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.
Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. "I'll be she loved you.
Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right