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There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe.
Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no ...
I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. ...
Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is ...
Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we ...
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole ...
There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we ...
It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's ...
The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your ...
I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But ...
New gods arise when they are needed.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.' In other words, life has a solid right hook, but it's not going to ...
We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!
In the past, work was defined primarily by putting in time, and secondarily on getting results. "We need to flip that model," Ressler told me. ...
He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you ...
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love ...
Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being ...
Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure ...
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most ...
You keep doing that, and you'll find yourself mated quick enough.""It's no' for me. I'm perfectly content just as I am."Ryder made a face. "Are ...
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is ...
****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is ...
My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my ...
The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.
Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of ...
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...
LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of ...
As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all ...
There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life ...
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 ...
You're too skinny," she said. "Too much coffee, not enough pancakes.
Humans are fully capable of loving cats and dogs and tropical fish. If they can love something much less intelligent than humans that does not ...
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 ...
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle ...
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud ...
Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and ...
Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and ...
In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start ...
A man is not good or bad for one action.
It's in that moment, when there's nothing, that you find out what you were willing to forgive, and what not. Too late for that, though. ...
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in ...
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new ...
Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation ...
It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest ...
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can ...
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods ...
What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?
Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
I hadn't learned anything new, except that another one of the Dead Elvises had an affinity for the Shop-n-Go. And Jack officially thought I'd lost ...
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not ...
Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.
The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred ...
Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty; it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of ...
Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did ...
Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with ...
Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought ...
If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value ...
To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.
Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought ...
We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...
I moved back to Buffalo in 2009, and I had this moment where I wanted to have the best of both worlds. I wanted to ...
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the ...
I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but ...
Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that ...
Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed ...
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the ...
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, ...
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
A man's life breath cannot come back againno raiders in force, no trading brings it back,once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal ...
Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.
It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you ...
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
You're coming up to the main house and that's final. I'm laying down the law. I know somewhere in there you're arguing with me, but ...
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I ...
Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply ...
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's ...
It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of ...
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his ...
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a ...
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right ...
You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where "traditional values" meant "hang someone." ...
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair ... He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. ...
The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from ...
To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all ...
When life gives you lemons, take out the salt and the shot-glasses and fill them up with tequila. Fight for what you really want and ...
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little ...
One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this ...
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I ...
I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her.