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So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.
What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.
There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.
It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.
We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.
No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.
Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.
Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.
I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.