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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.
I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.
I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.
In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.
Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end of her life.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.
She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.
It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.
However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
Sebastos Eudorus Parthenopaeus. He is really going to hate us when he has to learn to spell all that.” – Acheron