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Quotes by Author
"Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!"
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"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
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"We must say to ourselves something like this: 'Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think 'I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.' No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, 'Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.' He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely. That is why I am going to love my spouse.' Speak to your heart like that, and then fulfill the promises you made on your wedding day."
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"I have to trust that, or I'll lose my mind. Well, lose it more."
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"Communication with God should not be a one-way traffic."
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"Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm."
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"If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life."
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"These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel."
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"Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free."
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"Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames."
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"Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times."
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"In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope."
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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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"American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just."
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"Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so.''Like yourself?''Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted.''Really,' she said dryly. 'Except for me,' he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin."
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"With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life."
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"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
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"I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores."
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"If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change."
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"Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block."
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"One thing that needs to carry in your pocket, all the time, by going through all the different experiences of life, either on spiritual or religious path or with your daily life is that, unless you experience yourself as God, there are more steps to cover ahead, on the journey called life."
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"It's always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It's why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel."My heart gave a little pang at that. I'd been called plenty of names growing up."I like mongrels," I said. "They have cute floppy ears.""My ears are very dignified."
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"Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down."
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"Motherhood is a constant battle of going to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and staying awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!"
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"One can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account."
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"Convert your time into useful assets."
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"Real peace goes beyond explanation."
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"People who suffer the most often inflict the most pain onto others. Compassion can be found through understanding this. When someone is internally suffering, sometimes the only reality they know is that of pain and thus their only knowledge is how to be a victim or an abuser. That's all they are able to communicate. Holding onto the thorn of resentment does not help them or you, but fostering compassion and forgiveness will."
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"Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time."
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"Trust and believe, and you will achieve."
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"The strength of every individual is the grace for great work."
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"The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book."
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"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."
Will,
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