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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks ...
You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your ...
People are not one-dimensional. People do not live on one plane ...
Non-existent male? I suppose that, in the ditzily
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.
When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.
People who drive like maniacs...are maniacs!
Poetry is the deification of reality.
But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is ...
I can't wait to continue traveling and do as much as I can possibly do.
Slanderous diarrhea of the mouth.
Well, if it's for a paper, then my honest answer is that I think sororities are bad. I think they're terrible, actually. I think they ...
First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.
I have my hair done by Valery Joseph, who does a version of the Palm Beach crash helmet so that it doesn't move.
Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.
It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their ...
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of ...
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done ...
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see ...
A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
You want to know what human sentience is? It's the only thing in the universe capable of doubting its own existence.
Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was ...
Then - in the dark - is when he sneaked inside her heart. When all of her defenses were down, and he'd asked her about ...
I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don't use it, what's the point of being in the room?
There's April in her hair. Motion and stillness. Wings and earth. There are tears, and there is ... friendship. There is velvet, and traveling, and ...
I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's ...
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium ... if I have been doing a very large painting ...
What was I like in 1966? I was 19 years old, very confident, and life was a big adventure.
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking ...
Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it ...
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish ...
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
If you look really carefully, when it comes to the Secret, the power or our mind, the power of our intention in our daily lives, ...
What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
Power is not found in muscles; power is found in the mind.
...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for ...
The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.
I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV ...
All right, Chief Killian." She allowed herself an airy gesture at the forward visual display. "That away - full military power.
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ...
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all ...
If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once ...
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
Just a friendly warning: the forces of spiritual darness are nothing to trifle with. Vampires do exist, no matter what the so-called scientific minds might ...
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
The fighters who frighten you are not the fighters to fear. The man you barely notice will be the one to bury a blade in ...
I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every ...
We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Determination doesn't make it easier, it makes it possible.
Rick: "...and we all need tragedy in our lives."Marley: "Why do you think we need tragedy?"Rick: "Because it makes us the people we are. It ...
Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that ...
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected ...
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
Time changes events and people
The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.
I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.
The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.
The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott
I carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) E. E. Cummings
History isn't something you study. It's something you should just know.
Great fiction tells unknown truths. Great film goes further. Great film improves Truth. After all, what Truth ever made $40 million in its first weekend ...
I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited.
How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind ...
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out ...
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.
Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the ...
One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.
Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate ...
I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and ...
Every morning, I wake up and think about 10 different things I'm thankful for, and I continue to spread that love throughout the day, always ...
A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all ...
If you're wanting me to besmirch somebody's reputation so that there would be some sort of division created out of it, I'm not going to ...