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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the ...
I have had . . . easier days. Although in retrospect, this one is not atypical.
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, ...
The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They ...
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; ...
Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and ...
It looked like GQ was having a convention and all the best looking guys had decided to have a coffee at Fortnum's before going to ...
I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
Being upset is a warmer, close-up feeling, not a chilly distant feeling like laughing at people.
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, ...
I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I ...
Still, the novelty of any letter or package was sufficient that no one suggested opening it until the full measure of enjoyment should have been ...
Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in ...
My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud ...
Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything ...
They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday ...
The door with a little more force than necessary and stepped inside the cool air-conditioned living room, leaving behind the
Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming ...
Sierra, it's Christmastime. Put a stupid mistletoe over his head and kiss him already!
Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and ...
The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.
The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is ...
My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. ...
Faith moves mountains; love moves the world.
There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words ...
But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something. We
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
I need you forever, for you are my teddy.
The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I ...
Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will ...
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.
Liz asked me the other day what I thought about twice baked potatoes. How the fuck should I know? Was I supposed to be thinking ...
Weed etiquette rule - whoever rolls the joint, gets the first hit.
You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
Seven a.m. on the first day of summer vacation was, to her mind, a dangerous time to be awake. Even God had to be sleeping ...
Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you ...
When writing your life story, love writes a masterpiece.
I'm sure she felt rejected by Fade, but she hadn't spent long nights in the tunnels with him, or guarded his back when Freaks were ...
The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not ...
Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.
George,' I croaked, 'are you okay?''No. Someone's buttocks are flattening my foot.'I shifted my position irritably.
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
However, he couldn't stand the fortune cookies. His always read, "The fortune you seek is no fortune." Or "Love your neighbor, it keeps the community ...
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.
If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in ...
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies ...
In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because ...
What can't be helped must be endured, Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.
Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?
What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people - well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. ...
Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any ...
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people ...
Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu:All our dream-worlds may come true.Fairy lands are fearsome too.As I wander far from viewRead, and bring me home to you.
I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.
My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes ...
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
TO LIVE A LIFE VOID OF NEED ISA LIFE FILLED WITH DEPRIVATION
Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging ...
The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.
She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding ...
Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, ...
The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a ...
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience ...
The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.
Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.
I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses ...
Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is ...
I learned a long time ago that life is vastly more interesting when you say yes to it." He
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted ...
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up ...
...Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...
Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and ...
Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a ...
She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or ...
My father-in-law ... was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.
In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy ...
I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.
The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.
And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on ...
...the liquor like fire in his hand
I think sometimes less is more. I don't think it helps to overdo exercising - I think you need to do it to keep your ...
The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. ...
Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault ...
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. ...
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating ...
He felt the stone hit his chest, hard and hot, before finding its way up to the surface again. He touched it, surprised by its ...
She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. ...
To the army of common soldiers, who do the actual fighting, and risk mutilation and death, there is no reward except the consciousness of duty ...