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Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.
Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around, " I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.
Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.
Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.
Revenge, ' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.
When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.
The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams
The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.
A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.
going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’
He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.
and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring
For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides? a
Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.
Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.
It’s as if people used the invention
of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.
I left a pause. ‘You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.’ ‘I should not like to be in the hands of a surgeon who did not take that view.
There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.
four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.
Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.
This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.
...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...
...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...
... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...
...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
A writer's journey may be tough, but never give up and enjoy every moment.
...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...
An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.
Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson
Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Legalistic disputes so abounded that he found it difficult to keep order.
In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose its way.
They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.
(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)
Chip, she’s gone, ” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone
Christmas ought to be brought up to date, ” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.
