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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

I would have married Jamie Sullivan no matter what happened in the future. I would have married Jamie Sullivan if the miracle I was praying for had suddenly come true. I knew it at the moment I asked...

He looked more dead than many corpses

You can meet someone who's just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just...

But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn't dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I'd managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter,...

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings...

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

Not until Theodore Roosevelt resigned his prestigious position as assistant secretary of the navy in 1898 to fight with the Rough Riders in the Cuban dirt would there be a rich man as weirdly rabid to...

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

Being normal? I have never had this experience.

The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skillful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which...

I look at him like he's the north to my south, the east to my west. I look at him like he's the song to my silence. I look at him like he's the constellation to my night sky. He is. He's all those...

I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the modern world. For the tools of learning are the...

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in...

Grandma Hutto's flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

So, Mr. Digence, visiting the family home?" "That's right. My mother's folks are from Killarney." "Oh, really?" "O'Reilly, actually. But what's a vowel between friends?" "Very good. You should be on...

The hands are the eyes of the blind!

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second - to - least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society...

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

Leonardo became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style. He was a man of outstanding beauty and infinite grace, Vasari said of...

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Follow your inner dreams

Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to...

As it so happens, I like your mouth."It doesn't - - "Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you,...