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Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.
You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
When you are in joy you are in love with the world & the Universe is in love with you.
I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.
Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from
Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.