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I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.
Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.
He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.
A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.
She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?
You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.
To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!
January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.
No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker)
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].
You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.
After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.
I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.
Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.
If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.
I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.
Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.