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Quotes by Author
"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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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
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"The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years."
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"Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies."
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"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."
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"Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure."
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"The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target."
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"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important."
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"Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
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"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."
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"I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity."
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"I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that."
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"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
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“Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground.
‘It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?’ she asked.
‘Oh, not really,’ said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. ‘I’m going to be forgotten by someone who I can’t forget, though. That will be terrible—but maybe it’s better if she does forget me altogether.’”
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"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
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"They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be."
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"I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things."
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"Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others."
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"A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions."
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"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
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"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."
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"Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom."
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"Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress."
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"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
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"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
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"Everything put together is made to fall apart."
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"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
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"A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates a link and the recipient identifies it as a mutual bond. A gift, however, is tangible and a promise is not. Eventually, a promise can be expounded as misunderstood, or misheard or it is simply over and done. If misheard, the social bond is to be put into question. If forgotten, it can be reminded but this is embarrassing. If elapsed, it is one of those broken promises that infest countless relationships. ['Promised me a breeze of freedom']"
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"YOU CAN RUN, BUT CAN NOT HIDE"The statement, 'after giving it much thought', hardly becomes credible when one spends less that 24 hours in that endeavor. In fact, it is really giving something very little thought at all. In that case it becomes an issue of denial. And also, those who proclaim Christ as Lord and God as Abba, who run to Them to hide from the very issues in their lives that They desire to deal with and remove, always amaze me. We as Christians should run to God with the hope that He will reveal to us that which He intently desires to deliver us from."
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"Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether."
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"This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher."
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"I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well."
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"She didn't want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn't want to be the vanguard-of destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did."
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"Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river."
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"It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it."
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"Giving is an act of generosity. Giving is sowing a seed. The seed will produce great harvest of fruits."
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