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About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated ...

...Violet followed her friend into the massive kitchen with its Restoration Hardware fixture and faux-weathered, farmhouse-style cabinets. Its perplexed Violet, the way people tried to ...

Once you stop learning you start dying

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. ...

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This ...

Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him."I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on ...

Why are there only 24 hours in a day.We should have more and the additional ones should be exclusively cherished for reading.

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make ...

This is the sinking womanwhose soul touched the ocean andcaused it to storm kisses.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It's not ...

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...

It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.

Oh! Hello! I didn't see you there. My name is Darth Vader, and I'm the president of Evil Villains In favor of Leukemia, a.k.a. EVIL. ...

There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow.

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor ...

I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for ...

Surely, if my parents and older brother were awake now, that would mean that they would have remembered such an important date and, as soon ...

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our ...

For the life of him, he couldn't figure why these East Enders called themselves black. He kept looking and looking, and the colors he found ...

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being ...

The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines ...

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the ...

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on ...

No matter what we might be walking through, we can still have confidence that Jesus is the God of the comeback and that our story ...

At night, I try to sneak in some of the shows that I love. I can't live without '30 Rock' - I was a fan ...

If she had to choose which aspect of the suite she despised most, it would have been a hard call between the lock and the ...

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just ...

To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, ...

Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, ...

Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ...

You duck! You flying yellow duck! And you took this long to tell me?! When Sarah gets excited, random animals pop into her speech like ...

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left ...

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

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 ...

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 ...

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle ...

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo..

Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing ...

There are two basic groups of German verbs ... strong and weak. Weak verbs are regular verbs that follow typical rules. Strong verbs are irregular. ...

We're not put on earth to one day leave it behind. This world is our home. The second coming will not bring the destruction of ...

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I'm in love with the one that got away.

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll ...

Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I ...

The Old Testament is the Gospel in the bud, the New Testament is the Gospel in full flower. The Old Testament is the Gospel in ...

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and ...

Who are you?" he said."I am the Happy Prince.""Why are you weeping then?" asked the swallow; "you have quite drenched me.

Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things ...

I am a star, a twinkling star. I'm an infant on the edge of a grave and an old man in a cradle, both a ...

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the ...

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known ...

Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I ...

The pigs are confiscated until these two idiots work out heir marital problems. Gowan, Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James

You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To ...

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society ...

Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?p 181

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 ...

I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. ...

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. ...

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a ...

Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...

Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn't and can't be a right.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural ...

Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that ...

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, ...

Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.

He kisses me once more, on the forehead this time, and then he's gone. And I know I'm young, and fairly inexperienced where men are ...

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

God is magnificent. God is mighty.

I love you,' he said. His voice shook with effort. 'I love you so much, it's like my whole life was just leading up to ...

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 ...

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

If I do it you won't ever worry?''I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.'Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and ...

Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children ... ...

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very ...

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the ...

Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from ...

I think she broke, but not in the way Ior any of usexpected. She didn't go crazy. She became more focused. More strategic.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be ...

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical ...

Get off your ass and do something. All you need is the right inspiration. Anger has fueled me my entire life. It makes me feel ...

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with ...

If you wanted pomp and circumstance, you dealt with the vampires. If you wanted ceremony, the witches it was. But for plain old straight forward ...

To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch ...

We expect the launches of Skylake, Microsoft's Windows 10 and new OEM systems will bring excitement to client computing in the second half of 2015.

(A boat in lake.) I was afraid it would turn over at high speed.Dreams less and less interesting.

The Story of the Volcano, An Aztec Myth Once upon a time there was a princess named Iztaccihuatl, more beautiful than any woman, and a ...

Most of all, I am thankful for Lily, who, since she entered my life, has taught me everything I know about patience and kindness and ...