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We can live indifferently to what people say

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell

What you told me did not change my way of thinking and I repeat that I would love to be your lifelong partner, but I want you to think very carefully about whether that man is me or not. If your...

She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were...

That, she said, is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your...

Memories streamed over her, and she sat up, images converging in her mind's eye, the sneaker wave of grief catching her in its riptide pull once again, leaving her washed ashore, bereft, with two deep...

Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.

Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them,...

The important thing was that we were alive...

Whoop-de-do, said Ram.What?I'm celebrating.Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable.Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in...

Western things stop being so by repetition

Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became...

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously;...

In my experience, influence is power.

All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us-fictions about themselves as well as others. Each wanted us to judge the other in his or her favor. Sometimes I felt...

The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with...

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

There I realized that she is a pleasure and joy and that she is my spiritual and my life, and that the world without a sorter is not equal to an atom of ashes.

The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels {which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later}.

- So turn around quickly and tell me everything about yourself!...

Damn decency! Damn Carreño manual! Because of him, his body was destined to wither little by little, without any remedy. And damn Pedro, so decent, so correct, so manly, so... so loved! -Tita

There are many ways to dry a wet matchbox, but you can be sure there is a solution.

A little {one} can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. -Abbot Saxtus

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.

She never puts on any weight, you'll notice that's often true of selfish women.

These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere...

No matter what doctors say, anger in human beings is often one of the enemy's traps.

Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any...

Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder,...

Conrad had gotten his ambassadorship by being a big bundler and raising a lot of money for the previous president. He reminded Harvath of Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. In addition to being a...