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Quotes by Author
"By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer."
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"You keep out of my bed, said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence."
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
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"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it."
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"When you only focus on your goals you never see any obstacles."
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"She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
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"Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect."
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"One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many bad spots in our best times, many good ones in our worst. One never gets the total impact of what we call 'the thing itself'. But we call it wrongly. The thing itself is simply all these ups and downs: the rest is a name or an idea."
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"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."
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"Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance."
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"A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own."
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"She slid her hands up the front of Sawyer's shirt, shoving at it, wanting to see and feel all of him. Every muscular inch he was trying to hide under his clothes. She felt almost crazed with the need. When he pulled his head back, breathing hard, he stared down at her. "How much have you had to drink?" "Not enough to regret this."
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"Stop being the sheep and become the lion my friend!"
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"You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves."
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"God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearly. To wish you were someone else robs another human being of the special blessings, talents and gifts God meant for you to share."
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
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"During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms."
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"A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!"
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"The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence."
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"If he's with you, it's a given that he finds you attractive. Don't talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women's qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn't like. She doesn't blame people for not seeing what she doesn't always see in herself."
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"So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."
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"Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade."
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"Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life."
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"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
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"Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I've recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again."
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"The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn't to overcome the difficulty."
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"Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose."
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"Confident is the grace of courage."
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"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."
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"I want to know the truth to set it free."
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"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."
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"And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar."
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"Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical " there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?"
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"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
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