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[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like.
My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.
The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.
I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.
As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.
I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.
Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.