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Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.
You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.
It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.
A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.
Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.
Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.
I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.
I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.
If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.
When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.