"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

Life, Mortality, Reality, Existence, Humanity

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"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

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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

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Born, Win, Destiny, Success

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

Being, Habits, Worth

"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."

Life, Talent, Writer

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

Reading, Read

"No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him."

Family, Father, Years

"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

Business, Actor, Pretty, Skin

"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."

Reason,

"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."

Nostalgia, Childhood, Memory, Observation, Change

"I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around."

Books, Influence, Learning, Family

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

Work, Preparation, Planning, Writing, Observation

"Where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road."

Desire, Truth, Exploration, Observation