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Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just ...

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. ...

No one will ever understand like I do. You're so different with me, baby. You take care of me. You make me feel safe. You're ...

I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

I've been wanting to compliment you on that', I said to her, in Delsig. 'It was nicely done. Do you compose it that moment, or ...

You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you'll have to say goodbye.

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.

Are you calling me your gift?" "Yes." She smiled. "How do you feel about that?" "Like it's my turn to be unwrapped." He nibbled at ...

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out ...

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night ... Without the satisfaction.

Creativity occurs in introverted space. Instead of considering those who seek solitude as anti-social, weird and non-team players, let's learn to respect this gift which ...

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you ...

We've arrived at another of those doors." There was a sliding door let

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm ...

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure ...

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of ...

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work ... I decided I would make him my model ... getting ...

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater ...

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never ...

In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.

The biggest lesson was that if you were clear about what you wanted as leaders and then let people give it to you without tying ...

I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

This is worth an eternity of torture," he whispered. "I'm quite certain I love you more than anyone I've ever loved, in any life. I ...

Master of the Dark Shadow. For I also, Niniel, had my darkness, in which dear things were lost; but now I have overcome it, I ...

Hurley, hurley, round the table,Eat as muckle as ye're able.Eat muckle, pooch nane,Hurley, hurley, Amen.

Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is ...

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

A snitch determines which data centers and racks to go for in order to make Cassandra aware of the network topology for routing the requests ...

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of ...

They forgot who she was: Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and ...

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not ...

Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be ...

Everyone's saying you can't do anything until you can do everything, and in life I've never found that to be the case. To me, first ...

I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no ...

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you ...

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only ...

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for ...

By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of ...

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as ...

35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have ...

Nothing is permanent but change.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for ...

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary ...

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 ...

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for ...

When the morning comes, let it go, this too shall pass.

Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.

But it is clear that no political activity can be encouraged by saying that progress is natural and inevitable; that is not a reason for ...

'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some ...

As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no ...

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth ...

Better check your pants, Kyle. I think you had a nerdgasm.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who ...

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing ... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual ...

It was as Nazruddin had said, when I asked him about visas and he had said that bank notes were better. 'You can always get ...

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a ...

This is Margaret Brown; boy did she put on a show!" Agnes

Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding ...

Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in ...

Neely O'Hara: [drunk in a bar] Who's stoned? I am merely traveling incognito.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, ...

Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final ...

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a ...

It teekles nozzing like Jock Torrance would like to teekle you, madame.

A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

When I hear homestyle, I always think of some guy in his underwear standing next to a microwave. You want me to nuke a hot ...

Every 19 minutes, someone dies from a prescription painkiller overdose. In fact, the number of painkiller overdose deaths now exceeds the number of deaths from ...

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - ...

****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 ...

Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was ...

What has first drawn him to Max was the man's unyielding character, not whether he was real-life boyfriend material.

He watched, somewhat fascinated as she swished a slice of bacon through the pool of syrup. His steely-minded cop had the appetite of a five-year-old.

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head.

No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good ...

I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and ...

The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and ...

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connectionswith people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our ...

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only ...

Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, ...

Everyone holds his or her own key to success and happiness. It's just that sometimes you have to test out a lot of wrong keys ...

Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are.""And flaunting it isn't what saved you."Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in ...

And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ... We paleontologist have said that the ...

I think middle age begins once you start looking forward to eating dinner before six thirty, or when you call the cops when your next-door ...

No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll nevver be totally happy.

If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbor's welfare has not ...

Humans lose focus of the big picture when they're drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...

It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for ...