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Quotes by Author
"Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?"
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"I should have forgiven him."Maybe. Maybe there's more we all could have done, he says, "but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn " guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self."
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"Our goal in life is to carry with us the wisdom of experience, yet treat each new day as its own unique reality, rather than comparing what currently is to what has been in the past. When we compare, we plant expectations that then become self-fulfilling prophesies through the Law of Attraction."
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"When you put yourself and your interest ahead of the people you intend to serve, it doesn't take long to find out that it's a recipe for disappointment."
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"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
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"It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message."
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"Geez, you guys. I know I'm popular and all, but seriously, you're a bit too co-dependent for me. I'm going to need you to step away from my personal bubble." A wispy vine-woman curled ivy tendrils around his arm, and he sliced through them with his dagger. "No! Bad Wraith! No touchie!"
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"The future was getting here faster than I'd expected."
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"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
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"The shining forth of God's kingdom is a sign of restoration."
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"I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth."
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"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being."
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"Ordinary people want everything the world does better. Extraordinary people focus on what they do best."
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"If you're ignoring a high percentage of the elements of your entire being, and the range of qualities they can naturally engage, there will be no real recovery or progress until you do. The typical relentless worker is just as lazy as the typical indulgent idler; they're both just going through the habitual motions. To break the repetitive pattern, and discover more energy and effectiveness, one simply must stretch out in all directions, rotating focus and application of the qualities that make up one's natural versatility."
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"It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion."
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"It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winter like a forced forsythia; I come in to come out. At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting.The woods are acres of sticks: I could walk to the Gulf of Mexico in a straight line. When the leaves fall, the striptease is over; things stand mute and revealed. Everywhere skies extend, vistas deepen, walls become windows, doors open."
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"Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity."
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"It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought."
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"Add value too your time, chill out with good people."
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"Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment."
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"Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder."
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"Only dedication to God's calling can make you say a firm "no" to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment."
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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
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"You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose."
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"Armus: 'No need for interogation if you'd tell me this earlier.'Samarga: 'You wouldn't buy it if I gave it away without squeal."
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"How a Brand is received is determined by how it's perceived."
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"The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain."
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"Talk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just as you are."
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"When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!"
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"Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe."
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"They wanted to stick her on a spit and roast her --- after doing some horrible things to her."
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"Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research."
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"Susan's gotta poker, you know," it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME. week she picked up a bogey by its nose."Death tried to imagine this. He felt sure he'd heard the sentence wrong, but it didn't sound a whole lot better however he rearranged the words."
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"There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have."
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"There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
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"Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity."
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"Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetypes- all a matter of polarity: the guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer."
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"Statism ends with an eye roll."
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