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Quotes by Author
"It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to."
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"First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now?"
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"Every possibility already exists. All knowledge, all discoveries, and all inventions of the future, are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth.Every creation and invention in history has also been drawn from the Universal Mind, whether the person consciously knew that or not."
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"But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers."
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"Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion."
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"When I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble."
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"Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handled by you. Watch yourself if everyone feels uncomfortable just because it's you doing it."
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"Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me."
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"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
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"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."
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"Love knew no bounds, knew no limitations. It looked beyond the unseen realm and reached in for a taste, for a moment of regenerated happiness, and in that moment fate was altered and the destinies of many were changed. Their land, their Northbrook, they discovered, was a very magical place."
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"Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the 'meaner' meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading."
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"I can cross my arms and I can cross my legs, but nothing seems to cross my mind."
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"Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle."
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"Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?"
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"Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories."
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"All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it."
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"Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of your self-esteem."
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"As Christians it is not just for us to know what we believe, but why we believe it."
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"Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8."
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"Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I've been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I've said is an understatement."
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"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."
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"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
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"Never let a man stay the night, she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.'"
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"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead."
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"I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page."
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"What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.'I suspect I am a hooligan."
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"There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am."
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"She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant."
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"This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen."
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"Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy."
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"For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people."
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