"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."

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"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."

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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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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

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"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."

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"Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"I am seeing life in two dimensions, human and divine."

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"If we born into the world, we must seek rebirth in the world."

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"Happiness is immeasurable joy."

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"PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot."

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"Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go."

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"A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end."

Work

"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."

Writing

"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory."

Heart

"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man."

Nature

"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."

Discovery

"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."

People

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."

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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."

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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."

"Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals... Watch who goes with you and why! ...live life soooo well!!"

"I am seeing life in two dimensions, human and divine."

"If we born into the world, we must seek rebirth in the world."

"Happiness is immeasurable joy."

"PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot."

"Have a ray of sunshine and light with you everywhere you may go."

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"A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end."

"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."

"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."

"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."

"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge."

"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory."

"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man."

"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."

"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."