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Quotes by Author
"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life."
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"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"You have grace to live your dreams."
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"The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face."
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"Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world."
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"Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?Who am I?How conscious am I?Am I conscious or obnoxious?"
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"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
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"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
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"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
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"Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos."
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"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
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"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
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"Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness."
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"Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the same opportunity for a career; politically all consciences having the same right. Equality has an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet."
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"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
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"Some of us see endless darkness and get scared. Some of us see the joyful moon and dancing stars."
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"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
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"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."
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"Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get."
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"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
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"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."
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"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."
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"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
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"The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand hours. The world gives way to the man who knows where he is going."
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"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."
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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
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"One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country."
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