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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.
It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.
If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.
Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
I’m never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.
But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.
The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.
All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.
People react differently to puppets than they do to human performers: they become more playful, more open.