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Amy Tan

"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

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"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

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"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is."

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"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."

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Amber Hurdle

"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white."

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"The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit."

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"The Bible is literature, not dogma."

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"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."

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"No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language."

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"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
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"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
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"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."
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"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."
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"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
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"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."
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"I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was."
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"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
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"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
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"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
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