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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.
I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
Not only did I manage to accidentally meet the man I’m investigating, I managed to accidentally have sex with him.
If you don't believe in dragons, It is curiously true That the dragons you disparage Choose to not believe in you.
When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?
I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.
I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.
What are you doing back at the bakery?” I asked [Diesel]. “Did you know Wulf was here?” “No. I knew food was here.
You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake." Morelli said. "I'll find you." "You are such a cop." "Tell me about it.
I don't mean to change the subject or anything, but have you tried concealer on that zit?" Cynthia Lotte - Hot Six
The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.
What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.
I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.
Hannah wasn't my first kiss, but the first kiss that mattered: the first kiss with someone who mattered. (pg 222).
We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.