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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.
Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.
Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.
Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That’s the fun of being Queen.
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.
Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.
There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.