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By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.
The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.
There are two types of people in the world: those who wear a watch and those who don't.
To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember
I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.
If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.
Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.
Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.
And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.
Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.