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Quotes by Author
"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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"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."
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"Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself."
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"Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life."
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"True giving lies not in receiving but in giving."
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"Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it."
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"Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason."
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"Get out of your own way. stop the paralysis by analysis. dream your dream. then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!"
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"Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am."
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"I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent, it just had to be something you lived with."
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"Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, 'Sinite parvulos,' he made no distinction between the little children. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags as in fleurs de lys."
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"Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall."
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"By music I mean the 'spirit of the game,' which is what all spirituality ultimately points to - 'I hear the voice' (of Nature, God, beauty, truth, love). Hear it and move onto or into. The easiest way to do that is to notice and invest in whatever it is that provokes wonderment. You could call this coming back to mysticism as a way of life. We were all already there as children."
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"Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER."
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"And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn't have to anymore."
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"Kaz reached into his coat pocket. "Here," he said and handed Jesper a slender book with an elaborate cover."Are we going to read to each other?""Just flip it open to the back."Jesper opened the book and peered at the last page, puzzled. "So?""Hold it up so we don't have to look at your ugly face.""My face has character. Besides - oh!""An excellent read, isn't it?""Who knew I had a taste for literature?"
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"Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision."
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"To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!"
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"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
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"I have never heard a more eloquent silence."
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"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
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"Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there."
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"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech."
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"When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes-''Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation."
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"I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild - timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline - a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample - that fear may be intense."
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"Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking."
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"He was determined to stick with his plan, convincing himself to stay neutral and detached. That's the plan!Then she leaned over him."
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"Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"Considerations & Exceptions for Impressive Handshakes Be mindful of a person's age; be tender with arthritic hands. In that case, a loose and gentler handshake is a gesture of sensitivity and compassion. Show interest; even if your right hand is full, offer your left hand. Demonstrate respect when you are caught in an introduction while seated; try to stand. Be instinctive about when to allow the length of your handshake to linger to express unity, connection, or sympathy."
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"Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through " no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it."
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"There are so many people who though can fight life and win greatly, yet they have imprisoned their own true strength and they just beg at the feet of defeat and miserable life, knowingly or unknowingly, at the expense of their true purpose! Awake whilst you have life and do something noble with all our might now!"
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