"It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life."

Life, Being, Luxury, Writer

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"It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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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."

Hope, Being, Books, Salvation

"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

Thought, Dumb, Want

"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 learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."

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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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"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."

Family, Mother, Childhood

"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."

Time, Care, Day, Job

"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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"It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life."

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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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