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The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.
It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.
So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.
I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.
A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.
This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.