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LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you.

Nakajima's past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That's what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defectsnot being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has ...

Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt ...

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small 'l' but sensible ...

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by ...

Finally, the cold was a major factor - as stated previously, initially no one wanted to leave the warmth of the interior of the ship ...

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not ...

You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on ...

How do you like your eggs?" she said. "Hard or soft?""Hard," he bit out. "Why am I not surprised.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then ...

Things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and ...

I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing ...

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure ...

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, ...

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of ...

You're impossible." I sighed. "And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you.""Is that a good thing or not?"I shrugged. "You two have bittersweet panty-dropping connection.""Gross.

There are anthropogenic state risks at the existential level as well: the longer we live in an internationally anarchic system, the greater the cumulative chance ...

I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my ...

A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural ...

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

Despite the ever-increasing responsibilities, there are no promotions in motherhood. You'll never get an annual review followed by a fat bonus and a healthy raise.

It wasn't his fault he'd been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer ...

How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?

It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one ...

Being "too pushy" is paradoxically not a display of too much strength, but of weakness. What's more impressive than ambition is the power to control ...

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking ...

I took the Nuban's bow. I didn't trust the midget to be able to run down any thieves, and besides, I might want to shoot ...

There's greatness in smallness. Just look into the eyes of a child.

I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play ...

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.

At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see.

My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time. And now I made some ...

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in ...

I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no ...

I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: ...

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating ...

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not ...

AK 47, is perfect copy, yes? Every detail. Like real thing. Yes. Kalashnikov. Your boy, he be happy for Uncle Sante, no?""I'm sorry, Sante. It's ...

If he's shutting people out, what makes you think I'll be able to reach him?" "Because he loves you! It's obvious." Nic

I can't always tell what's betterlong drivesin the star-spangled desertsor long walksalong winding tea gardens.

It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of ...

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to ...

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow ...

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to ...

For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had ...

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that ...

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human ...

Toddlers really are daft with their inexperience and lack of communication skills. They all need to fucking grow up.

The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new ...

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no ...

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that ...

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this ...

Birch treesTeach me that I am nothingAnd that I am deserving of life

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide ...

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day you ...

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want Skulduggery: A winning sense of ...

We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer ...

Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run ...

Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat ...

Relax, Xander. It's only two lines."He closed his eyes and leaned into her, his arms wrapping her back. "But it's still lines in a real ...

Nothing but truth is immortal.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything ...

Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence ...

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances ...

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new ...

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding ...

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.

What twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in ...

Our self-centered acts in turn cause us unhappiness and a tendency to repeat our nonvirtuous behavior, thereby producing more misery.

These days, NORAD's peak period of public visibility is at Christmastime when it tracks the course of Santa and his sleigh.

If I had to do it over again, I would not have chosen this life. Then again, I'm not sure I ever had a choice.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to ...

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's ...

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many ...

When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless ...