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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
...Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.
Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.
Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.
Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.
It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.
Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?
No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history
Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.
It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.
Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.