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Quotes by Author
"Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling."
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"I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic."
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"You cannot love if you cannot forgive."
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"Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy - to the sort of thing that will make a man sweat and tremble and throw up . . . and go and do what he thinks he has to do anyway."
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"Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career."
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"But cocks aren't supposed to lay eggs... Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. "...they're supposed to fertilise them."
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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
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"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
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"You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels."
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"If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end."
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"Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts."
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"To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land."
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"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
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"It is better to hope less than to be hopeless."
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"The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure."
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"Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you."
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"Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession."
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"Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues."
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"Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest."
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"When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren't. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won't like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book."
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"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."
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"In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic."
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"A week ago, he would've sank his fangs into her flesh without a second thought. But now? Muriah had lured him into her world, into her reality, not as a god, but as a partner, a man."
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"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."
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"When you don't have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism."
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"Each of our lives is the sum of its parts. No ONE individual is the driving force. And no one person can stall its progression. If everyone plays their position, life evolves without drama, opportunities flourish and ultimately we ALL benefit. When you selfishly overstate your part you only weaken the whole."
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"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."
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"Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some."
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"Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."
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"Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"The junkies had themselves a field day, they didn't care for the safety of the overseas tourists, no sir. They would stop at nothing. Some tourists were left bloodied and battered on the sacred ground of the Wallace Monument, minus their video cameras and the likes. The camera's were soon sold to a fence in the Raploch for pennies, compared to the actual price it was worth, then the junkies didn't waste much time getting to Big Mags' door with the £20 that they had got from the local fence in the nearby neighbourhood."
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"She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and went to heaven. Would Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni get round to naming a wedding date before then? She hoped so, although he certainly seemed to be taking his time. Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper."
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"Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons."
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"I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy."
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