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Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.
Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.
You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.
She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.
I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.
It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.
Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.
Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.
Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.
To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.
I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.