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Quotes by Author
"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."
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"But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams."
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"We aren't afraid of what we can explain. But the truth is stranger than an aimless road, it always was. The world was full of blinding mysteries, and I was blind to truth of what they were. There were things about the world I couldn't understand."
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"Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary."
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"What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person - you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself."
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"Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did."
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"When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change."
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"I had feared this end, wondered where I would go from it, from the moment I first stepped on this footpath in the desert. But I found I was not afraid of reaching it now. I was happy. I hadn't found every answer for where I was going, but I now had all I needed to take these next steps. I knew I would do what I needed to become a writer now."
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"Every good deed is acceptable goodness."
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"Every woman needs these three things: Self - Esteem, Self - Love, and Self - Confidence. A female that possess all three is an empowered and unstoppable Queen. She knows her worth! Everything about her represents quality. Her happiness comes from within, first. She respects herself. She values who she is. She's not easily impressed or persuaded by people or things. She has purpose and direction! An admirable being is what she is: Extraordinary and highly desirable. She's an Unparalleled Woman."
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"Ignorance is a limitation."
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"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
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"Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass."
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"The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin's rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys."
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"May the scribes record it."
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"The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life."
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"Dios mio, I think my brother lost his balls somewhere between here and Mexico. Or maybe Brittany has them zipped inside that fancy purse (of hers)."
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"To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed."
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"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them."
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"My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12."
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"She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late."
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"If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere."
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"Friends don't build cages for each other."
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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."
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"And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that."
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"Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?"
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"It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world."
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"What cannot be done today, will not be done tomorrow. We will find bigger excuses!"
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"Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over."
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"You need to discover something that will impact humanity."
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"In times of long established peace, when the tradition of generations has established the illusion of the profoundest human security, men's minds are not greatly distressed by grotesqueness and absurdity in their political forms. It is all part of the humour and the good-humour of life. When one believes that all the tigers in the jungle are dead, it is quite amusing to walk along the jungle paths in a dressing-gown with a fan instead of a gun."
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"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge."
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"When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ['Absence of Desire']"
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"Silly. Dark isn't scary. Dark is safe.'Why? 'I live in the dark all the time. But when it's dark outside everyone has to be there, too. And if you can't see someone, they can't see you, either. She sniffles a few times. 'So, it's like I'm hiding in the dark?'Yes. You're the secret when it's dark. Dark is safe."
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"He turned the corner and flipped me off at the same time. See? Men could multitask. I was so proud of him."
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"I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart."
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