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I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.
I would think Australians would understand 'guy talk' better than most. Definitely better than Brits.
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.
This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.
The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.
Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).
Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.