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Quotes by Author
"Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can."
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"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."
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"Insecurity was never humility, just as arrogance was never success."
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"You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'."
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"Never forget that when it comes to humans, you are your best helping hand or even your only help. So this moment calls for you to stop waiting on people and start persistently helping yourself."
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"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
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"When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost."
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"But "almost done" is not done!"
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"If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it."
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"I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed for that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you."
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"Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke."
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"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."
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"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
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"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."
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"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung."
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"Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fAated act of humankind."
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"You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude."
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"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
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"Worry leads to weary."
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"Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility."
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"Eye Contact. Direct eye contact is one of the best compliments you can give to another. You are subliminally telling them that you are listening, they matter, and that what they have to say is important."
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"There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot."
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"I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them."
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"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
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"Punctuality is the soul of business."
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"The world needs them - the ones who absorb the emotions of others, which diminishes their pain and disquietude and the world also uses them as a repository for confessions, secrets, grudges and indignation. They will leave these uncommon and intuitive individuals feeling unburdened themselves while the unusual individual will be weighed down by having taken on those burdens in addition to their own. The world needs them but what they need is something as aberrant as themselves, and that is silence, stillness and rest."
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"There will be moments in your life, when it seems you can no longer go on and you want to give up everything."
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