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Quotes by Author
"Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends."
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"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer."
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"Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing."
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"It's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity."
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"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world."
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"You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that."
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"No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything."
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"They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them."
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"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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"When love speaks it is about 'us' or 'we'. when ego speaks it is about 'I' or 'me'."
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"Believe that your hard work, dedication and persistence will pay off; improve through continual learning and believe in your future."
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"Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer."
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"Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature."
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"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power."
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"When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction."
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"Nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself."
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"She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien?"
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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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"All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?"
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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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"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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