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Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.
I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.
Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.
I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.
Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.
Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.
To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality
It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.