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I'd always believed that the cello was a solitary instrument, but now I was starting to wonder if maybe I was the solitary one.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, ...

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

There must be an angel playing with my heart.

She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called

If you don't believe inside yourself that you can learn a lot, nobody's ever going to do that for you. Nobody's ever gonna give you ...

Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week.Carl Costanza - Hot Six

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on ...

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of ...

Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on the ...

We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all ...

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

All beauty, resonance, integrity,Exist by deprivation or logicOf strange position.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to ...

Let me hear your voice; and I'll tell you who you are.

We must stop relying on our human strength, instead seek grace.

When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have ...

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for ...

Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me ...

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

He told himself he would pretend nothing was wrong, but he couldn't fool himself. He could forgive himself for having done something wrong, even something ...

Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.

But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.

CAPULET: ...Well, we were born to die.

Hell is the denial of the ordinary...

You must however pay attention to the fact that we don't only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, ...

I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is a service in ...

People deal with all sorts of obstacles at work. There is the fear of failure, plus confrontations with mindless bureaucracy, with other people's egos, with ...

APPENDIX A PREFACE TO THE CHEAP EDITION (1858)

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in ...

Life makes love look hard.

There's no Coastguard in France. They let the French Navy do it. They have to give them something to do. It's not good for national ...

What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited ...

I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a ...

Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or ...

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?

If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.

As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a ...

Ah, man. (Talon)What? (Wulf)Friggin' Fabio alert. (Talon)Hey, you're not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf)Bite me, Viking. (Talon)

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

It'll never be too late to start to make use of the time you still have left

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So ...

I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I ...

When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls ...

Senator Ted Kennedy said with regards to MK-ULTRA that "the Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in ...

Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it ...

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've ...

We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, ...

When a man's said what he means, he'd better stop, for th' ale 'ull be none the better for stannin'. An

When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.

....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time ...

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own ...

Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their ...

Act by inspiration, motivated by love.

It was either a very big cat or quite a small tiger, said Harry.

They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you.

Guns give Evil a means to expression.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

1. Ellie2. You're3. The4. Only5. Reason6. I7. Don't8. Hate9. Living10. Here

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.Or die trying

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

What I like about eyewear is that it can work with a lot of different looks. You can wear it with a Balenciaga dress, or ...

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. ...

Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and ...

I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big ...

Saba used to say there was a difference between bravery and courage. Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing ...

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly ...

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my ...

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clus-ters of other hands must have touched ...

5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given ...

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, ...

Napoleon was in high spirits. He dined on potatoes fried

Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.

Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of ...

Want lots of books? Be daddy's little girl

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense ...

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.