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Quotes by Author
"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows."
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"He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other."
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"One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy."
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"The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all."
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"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
Cure,
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"By authentically sharing when things aren't right you allow the people you care about to offer the support you may need."
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"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."
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"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory."
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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"You cannot end a theology class without hearing these recurrent words "maybe", "it seems to me", "perhaps", "the unique reason may be that", "my belief on this subject is that", "there are many interpretations to how", etc. All of which indicate a lack of certainty. It's not surprising in a class with the task to study the invisible god."
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"There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity."
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"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
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"Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret."
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"The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work."
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"Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist."
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"The USA government encourages gun ownership at the same time as they have allowed environmental radiation levels to become ridiculously high powered and this continues to increase annually. It will be interesting to see where this government experiment eventually takes the USA!"
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"It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment."
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"If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved."
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"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
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"But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver."
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"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
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"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."
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"No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough."
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"I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores."
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"Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness."
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"An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance."
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