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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.
I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.
A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.
Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. 'How are you' is a greeting, not a question.
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.
Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers
When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.