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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.
I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.
Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.
The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.
Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.
True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.
Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.
But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.
Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.
I was in the same class of 100 kids from grade 6 through 12, many of whom I still call friends.
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.
I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.
No rules according to the Universe. You provide the feelings of having it now; it will respond.
Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others... love yourself and you will be loved.
By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.
Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.
There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.