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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.
Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.
You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.
I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.
Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.
I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.
I like the idea of getting money from corporations to do funny bits as long as they don't meddle.
Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.