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Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.
We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing ...
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
You wouldn't be here if you didn't care, Abby.""I don't." She glared at him, so full of life she almost glowed."You do." He kissed the ...
A hundred different scenarios running through my head. How sick does that make me? A broken woman fantasising about how to kill another human being. ...
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...
You're a damn dog," Adam finally snapped."If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result
I never thought I'd go so far. I never thought I'd be a champion. It's a dream come true.
There could not be pictures of Apple posing with our kidnappee.There were a dozen photos of Apple posing with our kidnappee.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.
It's because I'm pregnant, Christian."He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. "If I knew getting you knocked up was going to make ...
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned ...
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain ...
I know everything except myself.
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
"Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?" "That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. ...
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
The press pass and the a title of "journalist" had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.
Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he ...
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ...
To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, ...
Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what's real and what's translated into a memory ...
I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with ...
He will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat ...
The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he'd taken for granted ...
Excuse me? You're the one who was out to mislead me with your alluring bimbo slinkiness! What if I had believed your act last night? ...
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.
Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the ...
If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten ...
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey ...
Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?""Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit ...
I wish for a heart you can see straight through, for a voice that glows in the dark, and a few really good friends to ...
So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...
They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]
I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read
Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix ...
So goes the hard way- the (fall a)part way-the (break a) heart way.
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things ...
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause ...
I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.
Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit ...
Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do ...
King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to ...
He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest ...
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and ...
Remember this when you leave me here: that your sweetest face and loving voice, I forevermore hold dear.
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
Grover: It's a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that's because he's laughing ...
My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one ...
No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same ...
It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the ...
Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize ...
I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
Life is about choosing, experiencing, learning, and choosing again.
Getting caught is what I do best. It is either a natural talent (which means we can blame my family genes) or a well-hewn craft ...
Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a ...
Well, I suppose I could follow his advice. Are you hungry?""Surprisingly enough, not at the moment.""Will miracles never cease?""Ha," I said
Above the TV was a framed picture of Jesus bringing a boy and girl a puppy. I was in no way surprised. In flyover country, ...
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization ...
Right on time, sugar." Josh draped his arm around her shoulders and steered her through the lobby. "Traffic okay?" "Yeah, except when that alien spaceship ...
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. ...
When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.
Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ...
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he ...
Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?
My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of ...
Faukman hung up the phone, shaking his head in disbelief. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts. Inside
Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can ...
This tiger is sprawledSo still and so flat,A question arisesWhen glancing thereat.Is he asleep? to bePerfectly frank,He looks more as ifHe was creamed by a ...
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.
The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. ...
Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.
I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight ...
When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen I'd meet someone and have sexit ...
I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 ...
Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the ...
I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special ...
I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings ...
Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.
I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I ...
Analogy cannot serve as proof.
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held ...
Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.
He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. ...
I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a ...
I am a cultural Frankenstein
When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.
Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours?
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the ...