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I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the ...

He gaped at her. "You want me to wear it?" "Yes. That's what a chain of diamond is for ... Wear it. Wear it all ...

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities ...

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone elsefirst my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't ...

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your ...

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom ... have been thrust out of all public employment ... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and ...

I've played bingo with these senior citizens. They take that shit seriously. They might be old, but if you get I-22 when they were waiting ...

His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, ...

I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I ...

Love is meant to be an adventure!!

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as ...

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, ...

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. ...

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturae - the most healing power of nature - are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds. ...

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, ...

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true ...

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow ...

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than ...

It is the illusion that if we find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with us will be healed; but that makes the lover ...

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of ...

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to ...

I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed.

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a light.

Hello, Harry," he said grimly, "I see you've met my mother.

Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. "I - I'll keep it safe," he muttered to Winger. "For the hero, when he ...

On occasion, resisting saying a public "I'm sorry" is the best way to handle a situation.

Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, clocks diurnal, time ...

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the ...

Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our ...

Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We ...

That an entire industry could float in a mist of illusion and false confidence is depressing but true, and better to learn earlier than later.

Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure ...

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great ...

When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for ...

But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had suddenly ...

Life is a two way road. You can leave and return. It's a yes or a no. You can start and you can stop.

If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.

You miserable vomitous mass,

My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who ...

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30

This book originally aimed at pressing a useful metaphor into the service of elucidating a troubled world; a world

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.

Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. ...

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break ...

On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own ...

Isn't indiscretion the very definition of weakness?

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing ...

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to ...

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift ...

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

When one has searched for these as realities, who desires and what is desired?

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows ...

Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.

I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's ...

Why did people run around in random directions when shooting started instead of literally hitting the deck to stay out of the line of fire? ...

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Nevertheless, it is a change that is known and felt - known by works of holiness and felt by a gracious experience. This

For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have ...

And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away. But you got to. And, when you do, it changes your life.

I am beautiful soul with beautiful mind and beautiful body.

And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers ...

Reading is the soul's salvation

In fact, my mother always says that emotions are what the gods gave us to distract us from the pain of life. They are what ...

Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?

Never troble about trouble until trouble troubles you -Jyotika Talwar-

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

The only way to know the real Self in the absence of knowledge, is to be "it".

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Food is first for nourishment, not just for taste or appearance, and this is an important thing to teach children.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night ...

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past ...

I am definitely insulted that you don't remember me. I gave you some of my best stuff -Ian Fitzgerald

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have ...