Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. . . . If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. . . . The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.
We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!