Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that the people do no want freedom.
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that b...
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here.Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything, Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkl...
But you're good at basketball and things, Meg protested. You're good in school. Everybody likes you.For all the most unimportant reasons, Calvin said. There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I...
But we outgrow this spontaneity and forget the completeness of the circle of blessing. Once again we have come to think of happiness as material prosperity, as affluence. This is the consumer mentalit...
But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.
Below them the town was laid out in harsh angular patterns. The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, wi...
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countles...
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
And joy is always a promise.
Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old, a born writer who came to Harlem from Panama five years ago, and...
A village is very much like boarding school (I was in boarding schools for ten years, so I know whereof I talk): let any threat come from outside, and everybody, old and new, Republican and Democrat,...
A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present m...
. . For that he was a spirit too delicateTo act their earthy and abhorr’d commands,Refusing their grand hests, they did confine himBy help of their most potent ministers,And in their most unmitigable...
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She stopped herself from being hurt long, long ago by not letting herself love anybody or anything.
Mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, No, Meg. Don’t hope it was a dream. I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is tha...
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.