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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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"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
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"Words are only as powerful as the meaning they carry within them."
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"I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect."
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"If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower."
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"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
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"Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love."
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"It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much."
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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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"I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me."
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"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
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"It wasn't because you weren't beautiful, talented, funny, creative or had everything in common. It was because some men prefer plain vanilla ice cream. It's predictable and a safe choice. Confident and adventurous men prefer the complexity and layers of a sundae, even the ones sprinkled with a little bit of nuts on top."
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"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"Wrath: look at how their folklore portrays our species. There's Dracula for Christ's sake, an evil bloodsucker who preys on the defenseless. There's piss-poor B movies and porn. And don't get me started on the whole Halloween thing. Plastic fangs. Black capes. The only thing the idiots got right are that we drink blood and that we can't go out in daylight. The rest is bullshit, fabricated to alienate us and stimulate fear in the masses. Or just as offensive, the fiction used to create some kind of mystique for bored humans who think the dark side is a fun place to visit."
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"Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs."
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"Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job."
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"Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better."
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"The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors."
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"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
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"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
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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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"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
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"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
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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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"Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion."
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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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"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
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"When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."
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"I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow."
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"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
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