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War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.
The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.
If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.
There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.
Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.
Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.
In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.