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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.
Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.
If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.
A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.
Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.
Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.
Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.
I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.
What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.