91 quotes found
“Timshel - thou mayest”
“She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it.”
“It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!”
“And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar.”
“Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At th...”
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking ...”
“Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important ...”
“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.”
“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither ...”
“Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we k...”
“Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.”
“I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that morning came over the peaks of the Gabilans and the night drifted back...”
“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, cre...”
“For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”
“Look nowin all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we k...”
“Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.”
“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.”
“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
“Theres a passage in John Steinbecks East of Eden that does a pretty good job describing Californias rainfall patterns:The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful...”
