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- Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls…
- The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another…
- I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth…
- No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and…
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,…
- If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved…
- I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been…
- I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where…
- Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually…
- Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an…
- Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You…
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is…
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
- I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth…
- I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's…
- one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do,…
- Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them.…
- Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be…
- I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,…
- There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see…
- The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if…
- You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle