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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.
Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.
I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.
The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.
She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.
I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!
My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.
I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies.
Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.
The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.
God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.