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It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are.
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.
But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.
But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.
Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
Diesel is back," Ranger said. Yes. How did you know?" I woke up with a migraine this morning." Ranger said.
He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar
The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.