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Mrs. Sol Schwimmer is suing me because I made her bridge as I felt it and not to fit her ridiculous mouth! That's right! I can't work to order like a common tradesman! I decided her bridge should be...

Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off...

there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our...

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and...

Their fond Uncle Martin looked anything but gratified, but managed to control his feelings until he found himself out of earshot of his sister. He then declared that if Louisa imagined that he meant...

He was not accustomed to busying himself with introspection or self-analysis. In this way he was like most people who are rarely alone. His mind did not swing into action until some external force...

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant...

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten. This

When we try to see a damaged person as one of God's regular old customers, instead of a lost cause, it takes the pressure off everybody. We can then loosen our death grip on the person, which usually...

But politeness and candour run together, when one is not fitting neither is the other. Then the occasion calls for silence, that frail partition between the ill-concealed and the ill-revealed, the...

I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in {Stephen} King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a...

He could not help himself; whether it brought him comfort or misery, he felt he had no choice now but to speak of Fraser-and Quarry was the only man in London to whom he could so speak.

Most people fit suicide, I suppose; Most people, even if they have it very hidden in the depths of themselves, can ever remember in the life where he thought if he really wanted to wake up the next...

A thousand charming words string together in his head in a nanosecond, but he averted his eyes to his empty notebook. Notes? Who really took notes in class? Dawson wanted to see if she would talk to...

Linda grabbed an ashtray from the table and threw it at him, hitting him right above the eyebrow. Blood ran down his face and dripped on Harriet Bolson's file.

I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you?If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure.

Grant liked kids-it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums as they stared open-mouthed at the big skeletons rising above them....

We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent-namely ideology. This was a country where...

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

A woman saw those turtle tears and instinctively knew that the turtle mother wept for her children. A mother knew of all the predators that awaited her young, of the swift currents that might lead...

If he {John Adams} could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great Moo.

what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're...

lethargic with hopelessness

Greatness is not always good.

There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

If you don't have anything good to say to yourself, don't say anything at all

Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world - but he didn't know the global village would be Beirut.

I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.""Me, too," said Gazzy. "I want to find my parents so I can tell'm what total scuzzes they are. Like, 'Hi, mom...