"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."
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"Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard."
"Love is a cowboy's hardest ride."
"Gold Diggers are Always at Two Weddings A gold digger's eyes are searching for her next husband at her wedding."
"To enlighten your life, see beauty."
"She’s twelve hours in the future, and exactly half a world away. No matter how hard I try, I will always be a part of her past."
"Success is a journey, not a destination."
"I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost."
"The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up."
"Art is a process, not a product."
"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion."
"Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it."
"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
"I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
"There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
"Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time."
"How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly."
"Hidup hanya menunda kekalahan."
"People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre."
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