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For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.
I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.
I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back.
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.
But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.
But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.
Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.
If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so grouchy in the morning.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time
The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed A friend is never known till a man have need.
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.
Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.