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People had figured out all sorts of ways to makethings seem different than they truly were.
I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time ...
The God of Loss.The God of Small Things. He left no footprints in the sand, no ripples in water, no image in mirrors.
What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...
Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world and be sociable, but the more ...
We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end ...
The skyScorched by the sun,WeepsFecund tears.
[Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is ...
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites ...
The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.
If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped ...
Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you're not experiencing success.
You smell like crap so I know you don't like soap.
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who ... has constraints to heterosexual marriage, even ...
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies ...
Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit ...
Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.
People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected ...
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns ...
Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't ...
Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.
First rule of a pirate's mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom.
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, ...
You have to have a revelation of God's will and pursue it in order to fulfill it in your life.
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to ...
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither ...
Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone
When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it ...
Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have ...
Your heart has stolen mine; two souls beating in time.Yet you push me away-rejection a cruel slay.I beg you to kiss me. Take me. Claim ...
There were no ugly gods. Their first expression of power was in the reshaping of their selves, into forms lovely to behold.
Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared ...
She's so strong and fierce that I am afraid of her sometimes. But she's going to need to be fierce, because the path she is ...
I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - ...
And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every ...
Be the person that will take the first step towards personal success. You will be remembered for it.
A man who does not read miss great wisdom.
In most cases I don't even know the metaphors lay waiting to be printed off my retina.
I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.
I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it ...
I saw this train driver and said, 'I wanna go to Paris.' He said, 'Eurostar?' I said, 'Well I've been on telly but I'm no ...
Every fatline receiver in the Web, Outback, galaxy, and universe would monitor the squirt, but only the Consul's ship could decode it. Or so she ...
A canopy of sticky young leaves clung to the branches above him. There were startling yellow clouds of forsythia, trails of purple aubrietia; a young ...
Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's ...
No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.
Okay, yes, I am a bit of a geek. I enjoy escapist entertainment. Listen, I'd rather watch a bunch of elves and wizards trying to ...
Alright then, I guess that's settled," Lilly said, then she turned to Fane, "Lay a paw on my little girl and you will be a ...
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.
Ellie screwed a plaque into the back of one of the chairs: "His Royal Ass Was Here." Beside it, Marty scratched into the wood: "And ...
I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.
You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength ...
He tasted like a dark, decadent dessert. I had a feeling I could live on that taste alone for months; that his kiss was something ...
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
You deserve it," she hissed. "You deserve it, do you hear me?
I could not make a move without making love.
I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed ...
If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a ...
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that ...
Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You ...
I guess we're pretty lucky that we can't give each other alien STD's or babies, huh?" And THAT, folks, is why I'm still single. I'd ...
Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell ...
When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.
Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there ...
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not ...
The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day ...
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos ... I've had nine husbands ... which sounds appalling ...
In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex.
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, ...
At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them ... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she ...
If you don't do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don't love whatever you do, you are likely ...
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling ...
Life was too short though to agonize over the little stuff; sometimes you had to do what was best for you and if your family ...
And, anyway it's not always about fitting in.""It's not?""Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.
I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with ...
My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud ...
There's a hand," she said."You need a hand?" Matthew carefully skated back to her. "Have you got yourself stuck?""No, Matthew. There appears to be a ...
It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not ...
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream ...
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
For a slim, sexy body, it's important to eat protein every day - preferably at every meal. Be sure to ask about the origins of ...
Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.
Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic ...
Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man ...
For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.
I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."
In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their ears- I'm the ...
Started underneath the floor, Now my money through the ceiling.