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Quotes by Author
"The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels."
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"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."
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"Numerous studies have proven that physical health and longevity are linked to eating a balanced diet, maintaining proper weight, exercising regularly, abstinence and proper sexual conduct, avoiding tobacco and alcohol, maintaining a clean and hygienic living and working environment, knowing and keeping track of your health status all the time. How do you rate yourself on all these?"
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success."
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"A problem can be solved by changing your approach to it."
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"The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door."
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"The best way to move forward is to stop."
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"You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone."
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"Repent while there is still time to change."
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"If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons: Fear, Discomfort,Anger,Self-pity,Someone's negative opinions,Past failures,Unrealistic expectations."
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"To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals."
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"Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else's is unhygienic."
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"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
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"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."
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"Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr."
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"You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice?"
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"Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself."
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"He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him."
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"One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real."
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"A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results."
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"A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost."
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"You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between."
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"One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own."
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"Spend as much time as possible with positive, joyful people and as little time as possible with negative, unhappy people."
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"I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up."
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"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."
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"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
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"She was his life, his everything."
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"I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help."
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"It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation."
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"So what's your story? Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?"Yeah. Everybody has at least one."
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