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"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

"Things are always given to us when we need them (Acheron)." "That's so not true," Wulf said. "Actually it is. You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours (Acheron)."

"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."

"If you have strength, why won't you work?"

"There is no harm in trying... Trying improves your skills, enhances your stamina and encourages you to excel. Give it a try... Even in trying moments, keep trying. You will never regret it!"

"A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."

"You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there."

"Your true freedom is making your own decisions."

"Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal."

"For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted."
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"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all."


"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."


"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."


"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."


"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."


"A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time."


"The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin's rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys."
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