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If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.
I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!
Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!
Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!
If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!
A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.
Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.
Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?
Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.
I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.