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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.
I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
Rick Perry is qualified to be President in the same way that Olive Garden is qualified to be Italy.
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.
Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?
Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.