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Quotes by Author
"People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself."
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"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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"We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able."
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"They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them."
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"When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ['Is that all there is?']"
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"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
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"Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done."
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"Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed."
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"Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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"Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different."
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"A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course."
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"So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important-self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes."
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"Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness, disappointment is sadness."
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"Words are not the answer. Only the feelings you as an individual get from them are."
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"She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did."
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"Each day you wake up, work as if the manifestation of your dream solely depends on that day."
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"There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long."
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"They always come back, but we don't always answer."
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"Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms."
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"Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality."
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"When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners."
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"Some things you sentence yourself to life for."
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"Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up."
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"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because 'what could have been' is much more highly regarded than 'what should have been.' Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug."
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"Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity, our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations."
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"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."
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"To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above."
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"In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really. Like the white sugar of mental health, there's a short high followed by a crash. The cultivation of mental rest or surrender is like eating healthy food. It doesn't give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy."
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"As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone."
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"You don't get over it. You move past it. You move through it. You lose yourself to find it, and when found, it's yours and no longer theirs."
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"Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself."
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"Don't worry know what you can't change. rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrows battle."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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