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Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.
I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.
Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.
Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.
Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.
No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
The key to life is resilience....We will always be knocked down. It’s the getting up that counts.
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.
I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.