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Quotes by Author
"That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone."
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"It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself."
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"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."
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"It's your responsibility and no one else's to keep yourself inspired."
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"If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do."
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"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
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"Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again."
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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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"The society and surroundings pressures us to do what they want us to do and be what they want us to be."
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"Every engine takes advantage of a difference."
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"Any other questions?'Just one,' I say. 'What color are your eyes?' I want to know what he thinks, how he sees himself - the real Ky - when he dares to look.'Blue,' he says sounding surprised, 'they've always been blue.'Not to me.'What do they look like to you?' he says puzzled, amused. Not looking at my mouth anymore, looking into my eyes.'Lots of colors,' I say. 'At first I thought they were brown. Once I thought they were green...'What are they now?' he asks. He widens his eyes a little, leans closer, lets me look as long and deep as I want.'Well?'Everything,' I tell him, 'They're everything."
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"Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future."
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"If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do."
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"Negative beliefs and complexes are stored in your subconscious mind and create a weakness, which will not let you succeed in life."
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"Christmas is a season of exceedingly great joy."
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"Your dreams are like the market grounds; their locations really matter. If you keep hiding your potentials out of sight, you may be great but unknown! Your influence can travel long distances if only you give them the chances to go where they are needed! Rebrand yourself!"
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"I stay neutral with homosexuality, I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere."
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"We should reveal God to this world with our wealth."
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"Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist."
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"Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."
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"I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me."
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"Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.'Die, bastards.'She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die."
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"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
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"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."
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"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form - or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
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"We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless."
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"Maybe the reason nothing seems to be 'fixing you' is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose, live accordingly."
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"Every individual is unique with unique talents."
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"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything."
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