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being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few...

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it.

Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.

But we were just picnicking friends

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could...

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotation: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function?

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.

There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.

Niccolò, for God's sake, they accused me of being an accessory to murder, they said I planted a gun at that villa, they've indicted me for making false statements and obstruction of justice! They...

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure--even when the velvety victim is locked up in one's dungeon--that...

He hasn't even eaten at Olive Garden, so I doubt he's a connoisseur of hotels. - KatNo Olive Garden? Man, we've got to get that boy some endless breadsticks and salad. Travesty. - Daemon

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it -...

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as...

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

The characteristic human feature is not consciousness but conformism, and the characteristic result is religious war. Other animals fight for territory or food; Human beings, on the other hand, are...

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Sure, I'd like to lose some weight, but a tapeworm is the last way I'd like to do it, except becoming a prisoner of war.

She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relationships between people. If you could not count on other people to mean what they said, or to do...

There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.