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To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.
Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.
Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.
If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.
War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.
When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward.
My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!
I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.