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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.
I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.
The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.
It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.
I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.
Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.