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Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.
In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.
When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body
Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.
She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.
A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.