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Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am.
The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?
Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.
Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.
The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128
Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.
He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.
But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.
Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate
Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?
I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
You're up to something," I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?" "Yeah, you.
When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well.
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.
A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.