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Quotes by Author
"A smile is the light of personality."
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"I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles."
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"What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green."
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"I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me."
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"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
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"Do not compare yourself to anybody!"
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"You get a: 'Can Do Attitude,' by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned too. Raise yourself to excellence."
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"I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world's coasts the sea tides would be springing strong. The air itself also has lunar tides; I lay still. Could I feel in the air an invisible sweep and surge, and an answering knock in the lungs? Or could I feel the starlight? Every minute on a square mile of this land one ten thousandth of an ounce of starlight spatters to earth. What percentage of an ounce did that make on my eyes and cheeks and arms, tapping and nudging as particles, pulsing and stroking as waves?"
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"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
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"I believe that to be kept from evil is better than to be healed from sickness."
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"To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters."
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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
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"Adapt to every circumstance."
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"Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process."
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"There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done."
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"He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god."
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"You are the agent of the kingdom of God."
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"I won't take advantage of you. Today, I'll be your friend.""Fen has been my friend for decades," she said, sliding her arm into his when he offered it to her. "And he never presumed to put his mouth on mine.""Obviously I'll be a different kind of friend."
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"Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won't feel like your first."
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"It wasn't brave because he wasn't scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.' 'Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."
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"I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me."
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"What do you think about having some orgasms to celebrate?"
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"Confidence, darling.' He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. 'You could learn something from me, you know."
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"The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people's beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism."
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"But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted."
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"Watch out for the chameleons! Mind your mind! Watch your words! Sometimes, some people will appear very friendly to have awesome conversations with you, and that is not as if they like you or your conversation; they only want to weigh your thoughts through your words! Be watchful!"
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"It was almost painful to be different."
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"In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive."
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"The gift of life, gives you the greatest opportunity to live and chance to rise above any situation. With hopeful attitude you can overcome any struggle."
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"Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a radical difference in kind."
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"Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life."
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"Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions."
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"I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me."
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