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We really love decorating the Christmas tree around Christmas and have our little fun by playing Secret Santa.
For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.
To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).
I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.
Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.
I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.
If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.
When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.
The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.
It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right