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The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.
God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.
When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.
There are two rules for achieving anything. Rule No. 1: Get started. Rule No. 2: Keep going.
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.
When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.
If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.
One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)
Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.
The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.
If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.
A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.