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Of your philosophy you make no use,If you give place to accidental evils.
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing ...
We've been together a long fucking time, babe. What's past is past.
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and ...
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an ...
I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.
Phillip cleared his throat and got to his feet. I need some fresh air. All this postbattle rah-rah-we-lived sentimentality is a bit cloying.
You were right," I whisper. He sighs and I feel the air softly blow the back of my neck. He holds me tighter around my ...
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry.
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid ...
I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's ...
He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole.
Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized ...
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need ...
This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home.
But I'd like you however you were, Vin. I love you. The question is, how do you like yourself?
What are the five stages of realizing you just did something too stupid to tell your friends?
Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or ...
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
Tummy Time - When a parent lays their baby on their tummy to strengthen and develop physically. Also called forgetting the child on the floor ...
If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of ...
One time, when I was in a hide in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell three metres ...
The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it ...
I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.
Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.
Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.
We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great ...
The child is grown, the dream is gone
Your presence is a miracle.
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
For another life, in another universe, with you by my side.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.
Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that ...
So she moved away from the carving of the mythical stag, instantly cold as she severed contact with the delightful heat living within the stone. ...
Romance lives in the soul.
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new ...
The greatest among ye shall be the servant of all
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.
Serene in her own tale
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most ...
A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.
The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.
If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.
Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do ...
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we ...
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, ...
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won
It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
A good ten years before the fact, Dylan was already out-punking Johnny Rotten.
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
Tolerance is a placid contempt.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that ...
Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's ...
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as ...
Genius is of no country.
How can we explain the perpetuity of envya vice which yields no return?
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes ...
Because you can't redistribute anything to anybody if it's not created by somebody in the first place,
I wanted to be ready.I had thought I was ready.I really believed I was ready.That is, until the milk came.
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. ...
Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal ...
Truth is truth, even when told by a liar.
My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. ...
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease ...
For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
That's Mama, divorces a lunatic and marries a gigolo.
He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;
The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by ...
On Paper*some call it poetrybut it is just painon paper_rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015The Poetic Assassin
When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead
I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a ...
Japan knows the horror of war and has suffered as no other nation under the cloud of nuclear disaster. Certainly Japan can stand strong for ...
Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try for the rest ...
Every step we take leaves a trace.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit ...
But cowards are the worst monsters. Monsters with no prey but themselves.
Why would she do that?""Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look ...
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
One week. Sex, food, us, and then we get back to reality.
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
Her voice is as soft as a bubbling brook and there is an undeniable holiness surrounding her.
They were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, ...
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.
My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.