"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Life, Happiness, Laughter, Joy

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Life, Fiction

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Life, Magic, Experience, Majesty

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

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"Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff."

"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."

"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."

"I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money."

"My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head."

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."

"I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight."

"I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male."

"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one."