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Quotes by Author
"No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown."
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"Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic."
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"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."
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"It's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra."
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"More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love."
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"Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism."
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"It is amazing to see all that is going on around us and it is people of action who make it all happen."
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"It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."
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"...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight."
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"To have a flexible, open, clean mind, you have to do three things: exercise it, accept new ideas, clear out the clutter. Be willing to change your mind when it needs changing."
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"Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little."
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"Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every human."
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"Don't underestimate the importance of reading and understanding God's Word."
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"It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part."
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"I was so grateful to see Lissa okay that I missed what Eddie had already noticed. "You guys, where are Victor and Robert?"Lissa's face crumpled, and even Adrian looked grim. "Damn it," I said, needing no explanation.Lissa nodded, eyes wide with distraught. "We lost them."
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"I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong."
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
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"About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone."
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"I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew."
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"Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel."
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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is."
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"Someone once said that there are always flowers for those who want to find flowers. I think that's true. But I also think that there are always cakes for those who want to find cakes."
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"We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'"
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"Christ girl, ITM wasn't even going to bite you. Well, not the way you're thinking.' 'I'm flattered you want to fuck me as well as muder me. Really, Liam, that's sweet.' He grinned. 'Valentine's Day was just last month, after all."
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"Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it."
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"There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it. No car so covered with birdshit and rust that he would not drive it around town (and if it were a convertible, he'd have the top down, even in rain, even in snow). There was no flag he would not desecrate, no true believer he would not mock, no song he wouldn't sign off-key, no dental appointment he wouldn't break, no child he wouldn't do tricks for, no old person he wouldn't help in from the cold, no moon he wouldn't lie under..."
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"You are all kinds of beautiful and I love you like crazy."
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"Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too -- in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any chances we may impose of field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I don well -- or ill?"
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"Beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone."
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"I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology."
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"God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share."
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"Brotherly love is the bond of brotherhood."
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"How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them."
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