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Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
Wow, you're never allowed to sleep late again. You're crankier than a fat guy in stilettos.
That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.
no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
Don’t believe anything anyone tells you. You have to evaluate the world with your own eyes.
I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.
At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!
Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!
All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!
A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!
Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.
In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!
No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.
There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!
Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.