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As long as we're preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it's very difficult to appreciate and...

Yossarian was committing his traditional rights of freedom and independence with the boldness of exercising them.

opting for happiness and contentment is a decision that we can make at any time and that needs to be continually remade at every turn.

If you really want to be afraid for mankind, you don't even need to know who Paul Ryan is. All you have to do is lurk for five minutes by the pharmacy.

The lesson here is that a giant cupcake tattoo is typically an indication of two things: {1} Sister go her hands on some crystal meth, and {2} Sister smoked that crystal meth and kept smoking it until...

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Watching Italians eat {especially men, I have to say} is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute...

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

We are obliged to live as if there's meaning in life, without any guarantee that there is.

pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.

How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of...

All seasons have something to offer

The only useful generalization I'd hazard about rural politics is that they tend to break on the line of insider vs. outsider. When my country neighbors sit down with a new social group, the first...

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant {among other things} that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep,...

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no...

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence

Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.

The past is over, and the future is unknown. We can dwell in the imagined worlds of yesterday and tomorrow if we so choose. But the more we do so, the more we miss out on life itself as it is...

Eaters must understand," Wendell Berry writes, "that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent,...

Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the...

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of...

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the...

Scout - oblivious to our jokes at her expense - pushed forward. I don't understand why you're arguing with me. You know you have no chance.Michael clutched at his chest dramatically. You're killing...