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"If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist."
"Life does not always gives us the choices that we want"
"I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself."
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."
"If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb."
"When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy."
"What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love."
"If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!"
"It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear."
"Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side."
"Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice."
"I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there."
"Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears."
"Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing."
"Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike."
"Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate."
"I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it."
"Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another."
"Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new."
"I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being."
