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Quotes by Author
"I don't like how he holds on to her and don't like how long he's holding. That doesn't look like brotherly love to me. I stare at his girl. Why is she so damned happy to see her guy hugging someone else?"
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"If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?"
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"We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable."
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"Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia."
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"How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that 'once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict' and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?"
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"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."
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"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on."
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"Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities."
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"I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on."
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"Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."
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"Imagine,' she said, after registering, 'a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy.' 'You'll be so easy,' Rashmi said. 'Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti? 'Oh, do me, Marco!"
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"Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always."
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"Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother."
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"Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success."
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"History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy."
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"There was this tendency to drift. And yet when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art."
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"Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon."
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"For the record, I took her hand and held it up. These are the only hands I want on me."
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"The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra authority. Some destined significance.' Wow, very powerful."
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"Maximize all your gifts and potentials."
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"You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought - put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it."
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"He told her, I don't remember any other lover but you. I don't believe you. I don't. I know the facts of other lovers, but all the real, visceral memory, or any emotion has burned away. Those lovers happened to someone else, the man I was before I met you."
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"I am self - educated from genre books."
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"When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them."
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"Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have."
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"True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!"
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"Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of."
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"So what causes men to become violent? I'll tell you, boredom, silly rules, muggy screws and pathetic governors. What else can we do - swallow it, wipe our mouths out. You have to fight for your rights. Not sit back and take it."
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"Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained."
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"He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose."
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"Care enough to take deliberate steps and get ready through thoughtful discipline, research, organization, and effort. It will impress others and give you the winner's edge to live and give your best."
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"Your anger and resentment can destroy peace but love can fill the world with peace and happiness."
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"She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own."
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"Pray for strength to preserve."
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk."
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"Relationships are working either for our good and success, or they are harming us."
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"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
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