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Quotes by Author
"It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up."
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"Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done."
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"Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand."
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"So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude."
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"Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms."
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"But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown."
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"Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available."
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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
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"I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs' leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother's dip - pen, the smell of the trees, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I wished a sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like sleep over the castle of sleeping beauty."
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"When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge."
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"Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he-she-who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you, I told her, and she laughed."
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"When love dies and marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation. So, against that headwind of forgetfulness I want to place my little candle of truth and see how far it throws its light."
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"He had felt viable being near her or knowing she was listening to him or having the comfort of their casual meeting within a dream. With her, he simply and effortlessly felt better. They all felt better, unburdened, cared for, and heard. Being connected to her eased his suffering as he gave her his. It was only when she began to drown in the cumulation of commingled torments that to save whatever part of her was left, she disconnected, and when she did, his suffering returned and remained with him longer than she had. But instead of saving herself, it was the additional burden of her own anguish from letting them all go that took her breath and inevitably pulled her under."
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"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread."
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"Having what you want may give you Achievement. But wanting what you have will give you Fulfillment."
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"Your past history is NOT an excuse."
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"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success."
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"To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself."
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"For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system."
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"People are secretive when they have secrets."
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"Learn, learn."
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"I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."
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"And what god do you serve, then?"Whichever will grant me good fortune. "I don't think gods work that way. "I don't think I care."
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"Training of parts leads to training of the whole."
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"Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions... He learns by watching."
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"She made a sound of regret. 'We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,' she said. 'Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.'She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. 'This is not our time.''But that will never mean I love you less,' he said."
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"Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome."
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"You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for."
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"You don't need to be perfect, just be yourself."
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"If a person cannot deal properly with what he has been given, God will never multiply what he has."
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"The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and intolerance - and to deprive people of their equal civil rights."
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"By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them."
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"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."
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"On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay."
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"With every breath I take, I will always love you."
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"If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred."
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