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Guerrilla marketing aims its message at individuals or, if it must be a group, the smaller the group, the better.
The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!
The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there
The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.
My father, Rex, was one of the most charismatic human beings I've ever known, and also one of the most brilliant.
It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.
There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.
I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.
If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing.
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'