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David Guterson

"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."

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"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."

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Amber Hurdle

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

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Amber Hurdle

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

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Amber Hurdle

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

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Amber Hurdle

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

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Amber Hurdle

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

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Amber Hurdle

"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."

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"Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it."
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"I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that."
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"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had."
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"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
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"Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together."
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"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
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"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."
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"My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit."
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