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He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.
Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.
In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.
Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.
Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.
I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.
The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.