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Quotes by Author
"All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names."
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"Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy."
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"You know, he said, "I wish you could see this cave."What's it like?He paused. "It's...beautiful, really."Tell me.And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them."
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"Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die."
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"Oh, goodie," Puck said as I stepped forward. "I'm going to have a rash in the most uncomfortable places."
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"Stress is a thought, a perception of fear, it will melt away if welet our thoughts change with courage."
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"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."
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"No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
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"If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent."
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"When we prepare not our hearts for the things of God, evil things take over."
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"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."
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"Lovers should also have their days off."
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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
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"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."
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"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."
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"Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives."
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"This was a vision of wildness contained " caged. Huge, powerful animals whose wild dignity was stripped from them.Panic jolted me. These animals had had their freedom seized by people who put their own desires first. In the glint of the silver cage bars I saw the same steely repression, the same cold entitlement that allows people to feel it is okay to steal bodies and lives as I glimpsed while frozen beneath Junior. The boy who had put his few minutes of pleasure before my entire life."
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"If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief."
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"Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story."
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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
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"We are amazing individuals."
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"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them."
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"When you have a healthy self-esteem, qualities such as likeability, confidence, trustworthiness, compassion, sense of humor, empathy, and optimism all serve to make you more interesting and successful. But unfortunately, we sometimes get in our own way . . ."
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"Your calling may seem insignificant to you, but to God it is very significant."
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"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
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"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
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"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
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"It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking."
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"The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do."
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"The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself."
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"Vengeance was one hell of a roommate."
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"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld."
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"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
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"I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology."
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"Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own."
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