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Quotes by Author
"It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer."
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"New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam. He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world."
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"Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men."
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"I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice."
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"Make a u-turn, when you see you have traveled on the wrong path."
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"Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was."
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"Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."
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"My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said 'our world. He always said 'your world. But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he'd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities?I looked around 'my bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?"
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"The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father."
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"Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well."
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"Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace."
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"The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics."
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"In the big scheme of things, a little love is all we need."
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"Beliefs converge and become something new all the time."
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"It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless."
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"Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can't fight your way out of as easily."
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"Never forget what you were saved from."
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"I believe and therefore I am."
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"If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing."
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"The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers."
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"To serve does not mean just to attend church services."
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"I will not go into detail but the screw put up a little bit of a resistance, fair play to him, but we were so desperate for the drugs in her medical bag that nothing was going to stop us getting at them. That is what happened, we got the bag of drugs from her hand. I can tell you, we were like two tramps round a bag of chips in a bin."
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"Thus went my first Court Day.I think I'm going to puke."
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"Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity."
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"Kenji snorts."That's because you're not fragile, Kenji says. "If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You're like a freaking beast, he says. Then adds, "I mean, you know-like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people."
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"Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth."
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"Thank you for giving me another chance.''Thank you for deserving one."
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"I love you because you have this fire in you that you don't even recognise, but I do. You're strong and you're a survivor."
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"They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human."
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"Doubt treats God's Word as human advice-but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray."
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