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"The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence."
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"Don't depend on others to fuel your self-belief. Develop your self-belief so that it becomes self-sustaining."
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"Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?"
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
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"To understand kingdom principles is to teach kingdom principles."
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"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
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"Echo is my life. My life. I lover her. If there's a chance I can make her happy... If I can save what's between us... I'll do it, so fucking tell me!"
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"Every so often i'd wake up when his arms clenched around me, his embrace so tight i thought he'd cut off my circulation, holding me as if even in his sleep he was haunted by the fear of losing me."
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"In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. Cookie's words. I looked it up though. She was wrong. Webster's mentioned nothing about pajamas."
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"What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up-Ho-HO! Now you've got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You're not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I'm talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it."
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"If you want money, you must work to earn it."
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"Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want."
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"As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer."
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"The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose."
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"To ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think, or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. or vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw."
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"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation."
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"I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories."
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"Sam. Brianna is dead.He just stared at her. Then, in a soft, almost childlike voice, he said, "Breeze?"She stopped Gaia. It looked like Brianna almost killed her. The second time she . . . But this time . . .There were tears in Sam's eyes. "My God. How is Dekka?"Like you'd expect. Destroyed. Roger's dead, too, so Edilio . . . It's been really bad, Sam. Really bad. It's like we're in a war."We are."
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"No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into."
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"So what if you have stretch marks. So what if you have cellulite. So what if you don't have a big butt. So what if you don't have large breasts. So what if you don't have flawless skin. So what if you don't have a body that other people deem to be perfect. So what! Don't allow people to define YOUR beauty. Hold your head up high and know who YOU are! DO NOT EVER allow anybody to make you feel as if you're NOT enough. You ARE enough! BELIEVE that."
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"Because now, the magic is everywhere."
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"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."
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"The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers."
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"Why are you being so mean?'Friends tell friends the truth.'Yeah, but not to hurt. To help."
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"Things aren't perfect. They are far, far from it,but they are getting there, and I wasn't looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future."
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"Get back in my cot, girl,' said Gilsa. 'You're sickly.'No, I'm not,' said Ani.Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?"
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"In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world."
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"If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to."
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"Our elders, and our elders' kin, and their kin before them, fought to keep Sunningrocks in our territory. Many of them lost their lives, giving up their last breath for stones that belong to us. Can we give up where they did not, turn tail and flee when they kept fighting so that their kits could hunt and play and bask on these rocks? Will you fight with me now, in honor of all our elders and all our unborn kits?"
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"What kind of motel sells condoms?" "My favorite kind of motel?"
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"Our angels often come to us in the times when we are unconscious because those are the times we are free of the continual thoughts of our mind. It is here that we remember who we really are. We remember who we are in our soul. We are greater than the physical life we have been living on earth."
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"Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns."
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