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Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than taste, according to one study - crispness ...
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and ...
Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty ...
Green is the soul of Spring. Summer may be dappled with yellow, Autumn with orange and Winter with white but Spring is drenched with the ...
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech ...
Abortion is black genocide ... What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of ...
There's something about a guy who admits he's a jerk that makes him forgiveable.
I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the ...
We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The ...
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy ...
Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.
Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more ...
I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like ...
Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like ...
A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
I wish if I could fulfill the expectations of others. Life is unpredictable and there is no more humanity
Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, ...
It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too ...
But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go ...
The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.
Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans ...
People get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations ...
[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.
I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the bodyHas its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,And known to captains ...
With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.
I am not a big skier, but I love apres-ski wear and imagine I would look great in an all-white, fur-trimmed ski suit.
She felt like a real bitch. But that was a good thing. Bitch was a good word. Women who were aggressive and strong were tagged ...
Whoever said that thing about how no man is an island probably doesn't live on one.
The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still ...
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of ...
I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial ...
The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the ...
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always ...
You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the ...
Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by ...
A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
I was wondering what kind of giant would come, but you're just some tail-coated Romeo.
Quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem ... Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap ...
Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said "see you later" than Mel could ...
Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and ...
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!
On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls ...
I used to be Snow White but then I drifted.
The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk ...
Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us ...
The Alexandrian School In opposition to the previously named Church Fathers, the Alexandrians openly embraced Greek philosophy, thought of it as being of divine origin, ...
Good work instead of long prayers.
His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. ...
The definition of Ar-Rahman: The fact that we only take from Allah and He only gives; we never thank but He still gives; we rarely ...
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writera miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.
Jesus didn't die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power ...
'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ... advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, ...
11 If I say, c "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12 d even the darkness is not ...
I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.
Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive - both aesthetically and commercially.
I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.
Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, ...
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over ...
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.
Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they ...
Love is accepting someone. Flaws and all.
If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it ...
We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds ...
I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.
Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...
The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups ...
I have noted two particularly powerful and common methods of allaying fears about death, two beliefs, or delusions, that afford a sense of safety. One ...
When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to ...
American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.
Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.
Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human ...
The only art we can create is that which authentically reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create. Thus, to ...
Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats ...
Threats, Prophet? After all we've been through.""Promises. And I'm really goddamned good at promises.
Realizing that the dream had been sent to him for a purpose, Adin worked in secert over many months to create a likeness of the ...
For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not ...
I have said before that I'm not a a "curist" and I'm not an "ablist" but a "neutral" because I believe everyone has a story ...
They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by ...
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is ...
It's nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.
The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.
Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will ...
[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an ...
Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on ...