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Quotes by Author
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"Have a seat with me, Caine said, hopping down from the wall. "How have you been, Taylor?"Life's one big party, she said.He laughed appreciatively at her joke. "Things must be pretty bad for Edilio to send for me, huh?"Things are always pretty bad, she said. "We're at a new level of bad. I saw those bugs.Caine mustered all his sincerity. "I have to go and fight these creatures. But I don't know much about them.Taylor told him what she knew. Caine felt some of his confidence drain away as she laid out the facts in gruesome detail and with complete conviction."Well, this should be fun, Diana said dryly. "I'm so glad we came back."
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"What makes your brand stick and tick is your ability to make it memorable."
28
"In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love."
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
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"Despite the personalization of life's events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by."
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"Whether it is in a sales situation, love at first sight, a husband and wife having an important conversation, a parent disciplining a child, or a teacher instructing her students, eye contact is a powerful body language for enriching engagement, focus, and communication."
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"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
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"Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life."
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"She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall."
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"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
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"Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it."
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"Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable."
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"Be simple but think great to be great."
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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."
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"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."
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"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."
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"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."
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"The human body is not necessarily a human being."
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"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
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"Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies."
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
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"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic."
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"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
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"If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it."
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"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
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"If you try to forget it, nothing can erase a memory."
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"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."
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"A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip."
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