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Quotes by Author
"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face."
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"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
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"That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner."
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"You get a medal for being tough."
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"Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity-civilization's backbone-that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . ."
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"Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face."
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"What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted."
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"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
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"The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered even in some small way we will always exist."
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"Controlling what you are exposed to remains positive is paramount."
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"Brotherhood is born in adversity."
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"All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking."
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"The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead..."
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"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."
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"Not everyone believes in ghost's, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?" She had shaken her head slowly. "Men and women who can't get over the past, Aunt Evie said. "That's what ghost's are. Not them. She flapped her arm toward the coffin which stood on its bands beside the coincidentally fresh grave. "The dead are dead. We bury them, and buried they stay."
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"If what you are able to give to others, in this life, is only proportionate to what you received from people in your past- it only means one thing. You are a victim of life's circumstances, a direct and utter equivalent of what has been done to you. Rise above and become more! Be better than what happened to you."
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"...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking."
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"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
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"All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ['Camera obscura of the mind']"
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"Your beliefs frame your thoughts and actions. If you change your beliefs, you change your reality."
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"I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it."
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"Nothing in life is stronger than perseverance; time only promotes it, failure is afraid of it, negative people hide from it, and disease is affected by it. Even rocks give way to perseverance: because if water perseveres its impacts on the surface of a rock long enough, the rock starts to wither."
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"Stay present, stay conscious."
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"I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."
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"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."
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"The ball and chain of creativity has no key."
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"Some people say 'life is too short,' but yet constantly procrastinating as if life on earth is forever."
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"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."
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"The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are."
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"Focus is central to everything you do, and where your focus goes, energy flows."
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"Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all."
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"Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield."
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"Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending."
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"When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago."
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"Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it."
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