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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?
You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.
We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.
The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.
The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.
Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'
It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.
You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.