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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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Personal Development
"Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned."
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Personal Development
"Feathers predate birds."
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Personal Development
"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring."
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."
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"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."
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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
Life
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
Time
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
Books
"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."
Fact
"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."
Writing
"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
Ambition
"Never have children, only grandchildren."
Family
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
People
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
Media
"Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself."
Life
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