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Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?
stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.
There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.
When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.
I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.
Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way.
...but you have to know when you close those doors, you don't leave anything for the other person.
All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.
It's Christmas! Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other.
One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.