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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

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...

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.

It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.

Empathy is Gasby's heart, like many other novels. There is nothing more reproven than being blind in the face of the problems and pains of others.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned...

...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.

The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my books.

After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well.

The room was full when I walked in, but as soon as I took my place behind the desk, my nervousness left me.

fairness, he said, does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die.Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know.sacrifice is a part of life. it...

The class's favoritebook was Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. In this novel, Nabokov differentiates Cincinnatus C., his imaginative and lonely hero, from those around him through hisoriginality in...

Dying," Morris suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else.

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

I say "then, as now" because the revolution that imposed the scarf on others did not relieve Mahshid of her loneliness. Before the revolution, she could in a sense take pride in her isolation. At that...

Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.

All good inventions come from something personal, she said. People create things because it's personal.

Strange as a persecutory delusion manages from time to time to meet, however briefly, reality.

Do not allow the profession of which you are a member to induce you to take a bleak view of humanity. You will encounter all sorts of bad behavior but do not judge everybody by the standards of the...

quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

We must be open to God's miracles.

heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

What happened next depends on how much you believe.

Fracking-to take one example-was not the brainchild of private-sector research but the fruit of research paid for twenty years ago by the DOE. Yet fracking has collapsed the price of oil and gas and...

The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car,...

What they would see first would be a darkening of the sky in the east-a change from empty blue to a grey-white that would gradually shade into a heavy, inky purple. And then there would be a wind-the...

If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.