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- It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that…
- I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
- Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm…
- Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
- I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed…
- Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group…
- I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think…
- I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
- The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to…
- When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
- Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to…
- The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he…
- The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong