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Until I knew that it was you inside me, who has so much to say, I hesitated writing.

Solid and dense as his own, a nose ring and angelbites.

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, ...

A few years ago, I graduated college, diploma in one hand, margarita in the other, completely oblivious to the shit storm that was coming my ...

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it - to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes?

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

That thing over there was more there than it's there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn't exist.But the perfect body is the ...

Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

I can't dance, remember?" I whispered."It's just a tango. It is like sex, except with clothes on." Then, squeezing me closer: "Oh, I'm sorry. I ...

The Athenaeum always managed to have a scribe on hand whenever anything interesting seemed like it might happen. Durham avoided scribes, figuring that 'interesting' was ...

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?Athena's answer : What an interesting idea ... ...

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition - thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less ...

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my ...

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of ...

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think ...

There's no point in beating a dead horse. The horse will still be dead and you'll just be the tired asshole who beat a carcass.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

Puppies are adorable. I'm not a puppy.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

Who says androids got no hearts?

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into ...

Two people could keep a secret, as long as one of them was dead.

The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life ...

Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.

I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they ...

I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. ...

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and ...

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

Kill me now.""Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom."Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however, wished fervently for a better ...

It was be a hermit or open a hotel-. -with nothing in between.

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent ...

The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

You know, sloth is a sin," he says softly. "I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal.

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,Th' indifferent judge between ...

A kid with a dream from Akron Ohio. Now chopping it up with the Prez. Life is Good

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning ...

When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

In the morning, Liam enjoyed a long, lovely cuddle in bed with Mommy and Daddy. Then he grew excited because Mommy and Daddy started getting ...

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came ...

Riches are for spending.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written' ... It ...

Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom - and sometimes casts doubt or ...

Avoid companies that are cavalier about issuing new options to managers

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, I went to college with every ...

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to ...

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold ...

Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of ...

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should ...

Love is only thing that can make it and break it any thing..in this world..

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of ...

A broken women has nothing to offer a whole man. A broken man has nothing to offer a whole women. Why? The successful relationship is ...

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing ...

Back above ground, like robotic versions of the mosques and minarets that grace the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus, Houston's petroscape of domed white tanks and ...

I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you.""More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, ...

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. ...

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but ...

It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in ...

It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.

Sex stops when you pull up your pants,Love never lets you go.

As the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow ...

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and ...

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions ...

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because ...

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most ...

Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,

Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, ...

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils, and different creams.

The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

Did they teach you how to pronounce 'Avada Kedavra' when you bought it?" I ask. Victor just stares at me. Probably because he's never read ...

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

My cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception.

Sure, knowledge is power but it doesn't hurt to also have a sword. Just in case. Heartan, Viddion marah.

Why is it, Caesar, that there's always a man like Lucius Metellus?" "If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this ...