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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."

"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."

"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."
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"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."

"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."

"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."

"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox, that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."

"Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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