California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all..

I just get up again when I fall down..

Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music….

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. ….

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love..

Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our….

Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So sh….

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be p….

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

No one is content with his own lot..

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the bird….

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing,….

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end ….

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms.

Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics ha….

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us..

This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you..

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to d….

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