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"Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
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"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
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"But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing."
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"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."
"I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything."
"Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101."
"That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it."
"Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking."
"Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as amazing somehow."
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