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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."
Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.
I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.
You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.
I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.
Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.
I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.
A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.