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Quotes by Author
"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."
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"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind,
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"At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture."
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"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."
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"From the safety of his BMW with tinted windows, he watched Hannah Young pull out of her parking space, seemingly in a hurry to leave work. He'd hoped to catch her alone, but the garage was too busy right now. He wasn't out of place at all, but he couldn't have made a move against her without someone noticing. And following her from the hospital wasn't an option. Traffic in Miami was too thick this time of day. Something told him she'd notice if he tailed her. Hannah was far too smart for her own good. She'd seen something she shouldn't have, and unfortunately he needed to eliminate her. It wasn't something he relished doing, but it came down to his life or hers."
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"The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller."
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"The world was a vale of tears-it always had been."
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"What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder stuff that knocked him onto the streets in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, he's actually going to spend it on food (homeless people do eat, right?). Maybe, he really is a desperate human being who is trying to change his situation."
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"Forgiveness is a form of LOVE. The ability to forgive is not achieved with soaring thoughts or intentions alone. It comes about by engaging several tools over a matter of weeks that release your body, mind, and soul, from the trapped wounding energy that has caused you to feel so much pain and then be able to replace it with new healing energy instead."
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"Finding your purpose is a lifelong adventure. Enjoy the journey."
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"We are to live for the dominion of God's kingdom."
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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
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"My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years."
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"Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze."
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"Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
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"Stress comes from unknown fear. To reduce stress, love what you do and be who you are."
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"The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone."
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"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
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"If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge."
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"Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique."
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"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."
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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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"Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers."
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"Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius."
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"Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath."
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"A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection."
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"If you were to spend your own time and money to hire a consultant, coach, or trainer, wouldn't it give you more confidence knowing that they have "walked the talk" and have vast experience with what they are teaching?"
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"They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. . . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all."
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"I wanna be the best in at least one thing in this life."
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"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
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"The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces."
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"The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform."
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"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."
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"Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do'."
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