I. J. Good Quotes
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.
We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the lashes. It's also easier to guide. I can create straighter lines with it.
I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves.
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play
Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.
If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.
You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.
Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.
With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
