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There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is.
For most Democrats, politics is sports to them because they have no stakes because they don't pay tax.
Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
Where did Gabriel get a lily, In the month of March, When the green Is hardly seen On the early larch?
In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.
we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.