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She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do.
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.
Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.