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Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful.
The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.
You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God.
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.
It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.
I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.
If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.
The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.
We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
Given the choice, I'm sure the majority of children would rather have a packed lunch than school meals.
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.