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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, ...

'Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they cost too much ...

I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

It's hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the ...

In a free and democratic society such as ours, justice should not eternally abrogate one's rights to freedom and liberty, except in the most extreme ...

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, ...

The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. ...

The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn ...

Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some ...

What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and ...

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to ...

Herbal tea infused with Echinacea extract.

Until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and ... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are ...

When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into ...

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know ...

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has ...

Umm ... abit gross it kinda about boyfriend and girlfriend kinda going throw then they break up then they love each other then they make ...

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open ...

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.' Anomander

That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.

Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.

Teach that asshole some manners."I winked at her and smiled. "Anything for you, baby.

I think it's romantic," she said mostly to Edward. "Cursed to live their lives in the shadows, to be together only under the cover of ...

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ...

Memory is fiction ... All memory is a way of reconstructing the past ... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating ...

The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as ...

What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you ...

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life ...

He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing ...

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. ...

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. ...

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had ...

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums ...

As mutual fund returns vary widely, e.g. as of October 31, 2014, the 5-year annualized return has varied between -6.94% and 26.42% with average return ...

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit ...

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is ...

I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing ...

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One ...

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.

God tries to tell us in His Word how much He loves us and He accepts us, and that even though He already knows every ...

Doing the right thing irl (in real life) or online is good netiquette, but it is not always easy.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory ... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the ...

Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret ...

He'd make a great Chippendales dancer - if he weren't already a prince. And a wizard, to boot.

Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. "The ...

The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.

This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we ...

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. ...

In all your getting, get understanding.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, ...

Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...

My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how ...

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one ...

Death is not friendly. It's dark, black where you look at it. You're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, right? No matter ...

When liberals equate criticizing Islamic doctrine with anti-Muslim bigotry, it leaves a vacuum that is too frequently filled by genuine right-wing anti-Muslim bigots who are ...

Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees ...

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the ...

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, ...

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot ...

If you are weak ... . It is ok. Because you can get variety of opportunities to strengthen yourself ... ... you can have several ...

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it ...

Being on TV is kind of the best job in the world.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posteritya good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself ...

I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose ...

Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and ...

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

The door to his room is open.his face amooth in sleep.Lips relaxed,boys lips, i remember can be so rough, so tender, so sweet.So full of ...

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through ...

Do as you would be done by

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

A good army composition is: 10 Giants, 60 Archers, 6-10 Wall Breakers & around 80-ish Goblins.