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Quotes by Author

"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."

"I aspired to be the better me of my future."

"No matter the challenges you are passing through today, always remember you are not alone."

"Anger always has a reason but there are no good reasons to be angry."

"I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards."

"You can buy a person's time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely."


"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."

"The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on."

"The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves."

"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."


"When we fellowship with people, we fellowship with God."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection."

"Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance."

"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community."

"Advertisement shouldn't look like information, it should look like a promise."


"Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies."

"Carmen: 'I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me."


"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them."

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

"There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since."

"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."

"I live to love and I love to be happy."


"A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death."

"But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself."

"You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate."What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water."I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice."


"Ignorance leads to economic failures."

"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."

"Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity."
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