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He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.
A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.
Always radiate positive currents of... Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination.
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.
There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
We need to encourage our kids to express their feelings. We need to help them find their voice.
It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.
Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.
When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.
talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)