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"If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest."

"This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other all the afternoon. They would bend together and talk earnestly for a few moments, then spring back and look at each other, throwing up their hands comically in horror and amazement over their mutual revelations. I wonder what new scandal is afoot in Treeland."

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo."

"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."


"I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do."

"He pointed a shaking finger at her. 'You,' he growled. She jerked glances over both of her shoulders looking for the unfortunate You he was addressing. Her. Holy shite, this madman had settled on her."


"Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self."

"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."

"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you."

"Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away."

"Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can't raise my voice you can't raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists."

"The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands."


"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."


"It is important to know that goals must be formulated."

"Be self-responsible. Avoid dependency on other people. Aim at being the most successful person you can be. Read about great, successful people. Learn to think great thoughts and work to become an excellent person."

"Primitive humans could not comprehend the vastness of infinity and eternity, so as a trick of self-preservation they came up with the perception of survival of the soul after death and its recurring incarnations."

"An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government."

"Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges."

"Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living."

"If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"

"Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad."

"Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on."


"Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him."

"First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man."

"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."


"To truly invest your time into doing what you were born to do, you should be running away from jobs not running to jobs."

"I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?"

"All things are possible to those who believe in themselves. Live a life without limits. Believe in yourself. Break through the ceiling of limitation. Develop high confidence and connect yourself to total success."

"Using your body language to your advantage can not only improve how others perceive you, but can raise your own levels of confidence, competence, and self-esteem."

"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."

"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career."


"If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them."
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