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Quotes by Author
"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature."
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"Understanding is not absolutely final.What's now right could be wrong later."
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"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
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"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
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"We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others."
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"I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me."
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest."
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"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."
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"By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home."
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"Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
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"This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free " and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over."
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"A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope."
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"I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future."
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"There is a big difference between being busy and being productive. Regardless of how busy one is, one's success can only come from relentless productivity."
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"Love cares about you. Leadership carries you."
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"Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it."
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"Every progress made by Satan and every technological breakthrough in human history occurs because God allowed it, God created Satan and God is in complete control of everything. Job 1:6-12"
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"When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first.Even I didn't jump first.Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.Beautiful."
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"In all things in this life, we are told "It's okay if you don't make it the first time!", "It's fine if you don't get it right the first time, just try again and again!" We are told this in learning how to ride a bike, in learning how to bake a cake, in solving our math equations...in everything. Except marriage. Why are we all expected to get such an enormous and weighty thing right, the very first time, and if we don't we're considered as failures? I beg to differ! This is a stupidity!"
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"Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them."
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"Coordinating your gestures with someone's subtle behaviors, can help you gain understanding, realize comfortable compatibility, and develop mutual trust."
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"Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something."
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"Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great."
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"Family's the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that's where the spine and heart come in."
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"I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me."
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"And God created every living creaturethat now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak.God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke.Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this? he asked politely."Everything must have a purpose? asked God."Certainly, said man."Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this, said God. And Hewent away."
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"Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair."
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"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."
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"Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty."
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"I made a decision long ago not to make any apologies. Romance rocks, and even though my books don't actually fall into the romance genre, I tout them as very much being about the romance. It's fun. We're all obsessed with it. And it's human nature. Remember, NO APOLOGIES! Write what 's in your heart!"
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