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Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury ...
When you started this engagement farce I thought I was going to hate every minute of it. Instead I loved every minute of it. I ...
Let me put it this way. You, my beautiful girl, have the power to really hurt me, with how I feel about you. Far more ...
The fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you ...
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not ...
No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one ...
And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just through watching, it ...
A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
People are often in jail because they are honesty-impaired.
If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.
You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.
I'd noticed it because it was so weirdly out of place, a defiant crimson McIntosh in an army of dull green Granny Smiths.
Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into ...
I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to ...
Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
How can you own [ ... ] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.
I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.
There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
After all, nobody likes to be sold. But we all like to make good buying decisions.
With the geosynchronous orbit, the RAE Table maxes out. It has two answers for the orbital lifetime of a spacecraft in GSO: "greater than a ...
With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.
Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments ... ...
There was a sound of slappingWhen the angel stole comeAnd the angel that had lostLay back satisfied
A real Intelligence is an art to simplify complex matters without losing the integrity of that matter
I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting ...
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. ...
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
There is no question about it now. I'm in love.
I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. ...
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril ...
Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
Giving up on God and on oneself constitutes simultaneous surrender to the natural man.
It can't be epic if there's no challenge to it.
You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take ...
It just sucks when you've given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.
I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.
The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak.
Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.
I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
All the stories in 'The UnAmericans' required interviews, travel, hours and hours in the archives. All of that stuff is so important in the beginning, ...
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to ...
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - ...
When things are not going right, there are satanic forces inoperation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, orwhatever it ...
Suddenly a feeling swam over her with a mighty strength. The feeling was both overwhelming and peaceful, linking her to some cosmic and eternal force ...
After reading binge prompted by convalescence, "As if to balance the ledger, letters poured out at an equally prodigious pace.
What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this ...
If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology ...
You know something?" he said to Jamie. "I've never believed in God, but I do believe in his love.
Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
It appeared the more religious and older men got, the more insatiable their appetite grew for teenage hymens; a short sighted, selfish, entitled and wicked ...
You know. Uh. The bowling alley doesn't seem to be improving my game. That is the one thing I have noticed.
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of ...
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing ...
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end ...
When people call for "deeds, not creeds," asking, "What Would Jesus Do?" without much interest in the query, "What has Jesus done?" identifying themselves as ...
Are you crazy? Flirting with EliStock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood's house, while eating Belissa Norwood'scupcakes?
Sunset encroached upon daylight like a powder burst from the mouth of a crimson cannon - orange and gold ribbons shot forth to wage a ...
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? ...
Horrible sense of humor?" Hunter's eyes twinkled as he engaged in our banter. "Compared to your one-word witticisms, I'm a fountain of entertainment.
The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New ...
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
The receiver has to expend energy to measure the electromagnetic waves in the vacuum disturbed by the long-gone photon.
In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they ...
Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: ...
I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater ...
A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
Arousal and embarrassment warred for space inside her, but she managed both with equal aplomb - she was nothing if not an excellent multitasker. How ...
Food is the all-purpose comforter, the giver of warmth, the source of the artificial yet deeply appreciated sugar high.
You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures ...
In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.
Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.
Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn't had the flu, it is ...
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and blues feel that ...
It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally ...
Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women ...
Dude," Mercy said. "I will fold you up and stuff you in this beer pitcher." "But ...
Closed eyes cannot see light
In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with ... where you can trust each other and push each other in ...
For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the ...
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.
It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it ...