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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.
I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!
It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.
I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.
I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.