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Quotes by Author
"The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts."
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"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day."
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"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale."
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"Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind."
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"No living creature can foretell the future."
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"When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?"
Work,
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"Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey."
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"And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
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"The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!"
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"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
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"His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night."
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"We endure every adversity by grace."
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"She tasted like run, root beer, and something wild he couldn't place, but it didn't matter. He wanted more. Craved it."
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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
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"The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines."
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"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."
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"That was what her parents did not understand-and had never understood-about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories."
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"Some lurid things have been said about me-that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth-that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that if true these accusations must also have been true when I was still on the correct side, and that such shocking deformities didn't seem to count for so much then. Arguing with the Stalinist mentality for more than three decades now, and doing a bit of soapboxing and street-corner speaking on and off, has meant that it takes quite a lot to hurt my tender feelings, or bruise my milk-white skin."
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"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."
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"Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality."
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"I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist."
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"We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness."
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"I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue."
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"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
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"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."
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"When you make a choice, acknowledge all the consequences. That way you won't be left feeling compromised."
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"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
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"Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it's own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it's own liberation and we with it."
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"May my thanksgiving be my prayer."
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"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break."
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