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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.
All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.
Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.
When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
Ann Romney: 'The hardest part of being a stay at home mom was deciding which of our homes to stay at.'
Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.
The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there.
You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.
It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.