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Quotes by Author
"Read. Write. Read some more. Explore the universe through your writing. Practice and learn what moves you and what doesn't."
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"When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly.''And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in."
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"Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there."
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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
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"It is better to engaged you mind on positive thoughts."
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"The most attractive force is a smile."
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"Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real."
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"To fix hearts one must know one's own."
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"For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning."
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"Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God."
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"I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it."
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"Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful."
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"He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?"No."
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"We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental."
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"Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime."
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"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death -- a state which I feared yet did not understand."
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"I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."
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"People can attach themselves to something - an idea, another person, a desire - with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will - it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession - they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight.'"
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"A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty."
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"Melanin Fiercely Poppin' on Purpose."
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"The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly."
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"The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation."
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"Do what you feel is right and good. There will always be haters and naysayers..and their problem..is just that..their problem!"
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"Don't rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!"
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"There is nothing bigger and more important than a person's calling."
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"I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. 'Is this okay?' I whisper. 'Are you okay?'His reply is anguished. Honest. 'I love you."
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"I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much."
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"What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short, ' everything is fine. You say it, & it's a guarantee you'll come out ready for the military>"
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"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation."
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"You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward."
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"And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all."
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"I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory 'making out' and 'sleeping around,' we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized."
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