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Quotes by Brazilian Authors
"A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it."
"The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle."
"He started to estrange her... And they became strangers Who knew each other's heart, So broken as they drifted apart."
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
"There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that's been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us, so don't get discouraged if I didn't mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day."
"Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise."
"I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money."
"It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation."
"It's true, life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."
"Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do."
"The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality."
"The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations."
"If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself."
"Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch."
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
"To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges."
"We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about."
"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds."
"It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions."
"Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny."
"She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure."
"Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your beloved readers must not sweat. But here am I, literally sweating, because my characters are literally talking dirty in a steamy sweaty and bloody scene."
"I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities."
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."
"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."
"He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open a book to any page, or look at a person's hand; one could turn a card, or watch the flight of birds... whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. Actually, it wasn't that those things, in themselves, revealed anything at all; it was just that people, looking at what was occurring around them, could find a means of penetration to the Soul of the World."
"I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people."
"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."
"Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true in all lands. We cannot divide the world between poor and rich countries. It's like saying the ones are good, the others are junkies. That can only increase more prejudice, miseries and sorrow. Turning the wheel today it will lead to a better tomorrow."
"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me."
"Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn."
"Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked."
"We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not."
"Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so."
"And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company."
"Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me."
"Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice."
"Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there."
"A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced."
"There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow."
"We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age."
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