You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be...
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way...
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities,...
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
We were in the gondolas at The Venetian. You said you couldn't swim, that I'd have to save you if we capsized.His Adam's apple jumped. Yeah.I was terrified for you.I know. You hung onto me so tight I...
A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.
before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
What is your itinerary?To meet my maker.Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?A most mechanical and dirty hand {laughs}. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The...
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He'd been bold all right, but Fortune hadn't gotten the memo.
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that "what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything."12
...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between...
The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like {Chris Kimsington}.
James Hollis correctly observes, Wisdom is always humbling, never inflationary. . . . The realistic thinking of midlife has as its necessary goal the righting of a balance, the restoration of a person...
Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like...
The more we die, the stronger we will become
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So...
The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-true stability-is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.
Withdrawal to our dreams may be dangerous
I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
You know what I always say-never let an asshole rent space in your head.
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. -JOSEPH CONRAD
No doubt chivalry is a failure, but it is not such a failure as pacifism. Wars {even just wars} inevitably involve evil, but not so much evil as is involved in passively allowing aggressors to have...
those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.
Empathy lies at the heart of , like so many other great novels--the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
enjoyed both places. But it's nice
once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?
Adam, she panted. I thought you wanted to see the lights. Yeah, they're real nice. Wonder if I could make you come just by playing with your nipples? What do you think, princess?
Another huge advantage of learning as much as you can in different fields is that the more concepts you understand, the easier it is to learn new ones. Imagine explaining to an extraterrestrial...
Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
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...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
