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I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...
Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.
So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.
If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.