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"Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you."
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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."

"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."

"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible."

"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."

"We only listen to what we want to hear."

"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."

"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."
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"Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into the margins our interpretations and questions? Are we circling offending verbs and drawing furious arrows to the margin where we scrawl "irony," "frustration," "voiceless," "unfair!" Or do we simply turn the pages, passively receiving what's given, furiously disagreeing but remaining silent about it?"

"Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are."

"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."

"Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun."

"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."
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