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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself
A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.
Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.
Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.