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Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely
You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.
Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.
There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.
I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.
The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.
And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.
In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.
As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.
I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.
I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?