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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.
Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.
Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.