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Quotes by Author
"A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end."
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"Are you trying to tell me you were a virgin before me?" she asked teasingly... He snorted at the question. "I just wanted to give you fair warning that I'm going to fuck up. Probably a lot." She shrugged, seemingly unfazed. "Me too. That's what relationships are about. We'll argue, then have incredible make-up sex. And as long as you always concede that I'm right after an argument, we'll be fine."
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"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
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"For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice."
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"Do as gas balloons do, while in depression; inhale helium of happiness and fly high."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."
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"Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things."
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"My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony."
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"How are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words..."
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"Civilization is a race between disaster and education."
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"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans."
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"Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did."
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"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."
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"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
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"Excellence is not a history, but a habit."
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"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine."
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"My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight."
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"Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things."
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"My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines."
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"A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away."
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"The more one thinks, the less one sees."
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"Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be."
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"It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception."
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"At times, reality is love's great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love."
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"We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ['Happy days are back again']"
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"There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility."
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"Worrying about money is one of the worst worries. It's like having locked-in syndrome, except you're still moving around and doing things. Your head burns. If other people are not having money problems, it pisses you off because it reminds you that you're limited in the ways you can express your agency in the world, and they aren't. Worrying about money is anger-inducing because it makes you think about time: how many dollars per hour, how much salary per year, how many years until retirement. Worrying about money forces you to do endless math in your head, and most people didn't like math in high school and they don't like it now."
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"This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins."
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"It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee."
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"In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them."
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"Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility."
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"What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it."
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"You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be."
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