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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is as important as what I call "emotional truth." People attach different...

The characteristic human feature is not consciousness but conformism, and the characteristic result is religious war. Other animals fight for territory or food; Human beings, on the other hand, are...

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you...

People who took themselves too seriously not only were no fun, but could also be very dangerous.

Don't think about what he did before he met you, that doesn't matter. Sometimes in life you meetone person that changes the way you think, alters your perception of life and nothing else matters...

That's another thing that pisses me off about that Michelangelo statue of me in Florence. He's got me standing there uncircumcised! Who the fuck did he think I was?

As it says in Job-They that plow iniquity and sow mischief shall reap the same.

I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time. He could not press down hard with a knife. His fingers shook. Each bite was a struggle; he chewed...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.

Within half a block the man was sweating. By the intersection, his clothes were sticking to his body. The Glock tucked behind his right hip was slick with perspiration. Guns, money, and a bunch of...

The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.

The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from...

...Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

You could go to the ends of the Earth and love would still follow you there. It's not a place or a memory, oh no. Love is something inside you, something that only you can feel, because your love is...

It's only horrible if you see it that way, Morrie said. It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time I get to say good-bye. He smiled....

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Well, frankly, if you must know, yes. I do know better. I have the benefit of education and broader experience. And I know firsthand the dangers of industrial society and how it is making the whole...

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A...

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

Cowles sat next to him. Upon his lap was a soft, leather briefcase. Inside, his left hand was wrapped around the butt of a suppressed 9mm Springfield XD pistol. Harvath had made it perfectly clear...

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that...

The accuracy of my memories, whether things happened exactly the way that the personalities remember, doesn't really matter. If my memory, combined with the memories of the other personalities,...

It seemed as though Margaret hovered near Alice, aware of Alice when Alice didn't seem to be aware of Margaret.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.Love is the only rational act.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness?I believe so, he saidAre you going to tell me?Yes.Ready?Ready.Be satisfied.That's it?Be greatful.That's it?For what you have.For the love you receive.And for...

One does not come to a place full of poisonous chickens if you are not sure that vehicles will respond.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few...

Harvath had met and worked with over his years in both the SEALs and the Secret Service. Harvath stood up and started moving toward the front of the cabin.

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then...