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Are you willing to increase the amount of time every day that you feel good inside?
Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.
Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.
Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.
I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.
I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.
There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.