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You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.
I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.
I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.
In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.
I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people
Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.
People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
If you want to become a great marketer, the place to start is actually selling. one on one, face to face.
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.