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"Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God " or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?"

"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."

"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."

"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."

"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."

"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."

"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."

"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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