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I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving.
You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.
There was a poll released yesterday that said most people would rather give up sex than give up their cell phones.
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.
I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.
You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast." "You mean you couldn't... fly?" he said, smiling at me.
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.