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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now
Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.
I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.
The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.
please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.
well it about these really naughty girls they made this huge girls gand they stole stuff from shopes and stuff
a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.
My mother was a single mom whose days were spent as a customer service rep at Con Edison in downtown Brooklyn.
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.
What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.
Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.