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When you can do that, little Wren, when you can accept the wearing down and the eroding, then you ca...

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you...

In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinte...

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentiet...

There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of bl...

We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worryin...

Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it mi...

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter...

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look l...

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how importa...

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connectic...

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to ...

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

so that it may grow fatter and

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were ...

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity...

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a ...

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal ...

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into ...

I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I ...

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are muc...

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. H...

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for...

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps ...

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise i...

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time expre...

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benef...

The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of ...

It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gra...

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a...

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which make...

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anyth...

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The...

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and...

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see....

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown b...

Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other s...

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his sh...

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows ...

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my...

now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don’t want anything personal, let’s just do it, I do...

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stre...

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the...

They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them...

Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought ...

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her t...

The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an...

I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible o...

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populis...

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society ...

It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t mat...

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Towa...

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is t...

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are ...

It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importa...

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Wh...

I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’...

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at ...

They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast o...

Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "T...

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculat...

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times...

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and poli...

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according ...

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Bo...

Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was...

But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have...

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of yo...

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and re...

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that th...

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts...

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus ...

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions....

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition t...

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where t...

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientis...

That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it s...

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

There’s always a bear,

No man should live longer than his teeth.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes h...

They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothe...

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things...