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Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.
The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.
The society killed Kendra." ... Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.
FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.
You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.
Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?
I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.