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Quotes by Author
"Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes."
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"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."
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"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless."
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"No explanation is ever as good as not having one."
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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"In a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved."
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"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
Work,
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"Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear."
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"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered."
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"It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!!"
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"If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there-take it out or change it."
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"When passion rises to its full expression, it touches the soul and lifts the spirit."
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"To have a life mission is to be pivoted on the ultimate fulfilment of God's will."
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"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
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"If you can dream it up. You can team it up."
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"We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell. The power to heal from the pain equips us with the strength to rise up again and move beyond it all. We not only become stronger but wise enough to recognize and handle pain in the future. We however, have to learn to let the brick walls fall down so that we can experience true love once more. We must learn from pain and let it lead us to the most beautiful parts of our journey in life. Only then can our stories become fully complete."
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"The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own."
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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
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"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him."
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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."
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"I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn't want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn't understand other people who wanted to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I was drawn to all the wrong things: I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. Relationships never worked with me. I alwayslost interest. I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings."
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"We are not self-caused little gods."
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"She could be a fire hazard. Maybe we should remove her from the ship before she spontaneously combusts."
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"Here's the thing- I love you and I love her, but I swear to God I'll kick your ass if you hurt her."
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"Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings."
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"Do what makes YOU happy. Focus on what brings YOU joy. Appreciate and do more things that make YOU smile. Live your life for yourself. You matter! You count! You're deserving of true happiness! This is YOUR life. Live it to the fullest! Live life with no regrets."
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"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
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"What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed."
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"I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas."
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