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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
You know what would be fun? Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero. But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.
Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?
In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.
If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.
I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.