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Quotes by Author
"Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself."
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"The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama."
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"Life is magical for a lover."
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"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"
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"Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower."
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"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times."
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"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
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"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"
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"Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain."
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"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
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"Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . ."
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"It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person."
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"Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers."
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"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
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"Your smile draws people to you as it simultaneously brings out the best in you both."
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"We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone."
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"There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast."
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
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"True education gives you power. Education and experience make you wise."
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"Also, I'm not going to bedevastated or anything either way. I'm not that kind of person. I just think if you don't say thehonest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- she says,but then I hold up my finger, because I need to hear the thing she just said, and she talks toofast for me to keep up. I keep holding up my hand, thinking if you don't say the honest thing, itnever becomes true."
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"The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence."
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"I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always."
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"Begin to chase your dreams with great passion."
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"I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them."
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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
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"Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life."
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"History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time."
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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
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"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life."
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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
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"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
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"But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond Street, removed only by a hand's-breadth from ordinary people who might now, for the first and last time, be within speaking distance of the majesty of England, of the enduring symbol of the state which will be known to curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth."
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"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."
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