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Quotes by Author
"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
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"We can never bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what we have. In fact, if somebody were completely and utterly grateful for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked."
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"Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive."
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"It's alright, Kitten, Bones said. 'He won't shoot. Tate lowered his gun, even as the sudden dizziness from blood-loss made me sway. Bones took my gun and casually handed it to Juan, who gapped at him in amazement. 'You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that. My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine. 'And well she should have, Bones agreed. 'She's mine. Kitten, and no one else's."
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"I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, without furnishing any of the pleasantries of life for their husbands, they demand the sort of continual attention that a charming fiance might get....They are harridans and shrews who continually nag and scold until the men are driven idiotic."
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"He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin."
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"Alice jumped from flagstone to flagstone, her face caught in the rainlight glow, her hand grasping for a touch of gold. The towns excitement was contagious, and the air was so thick with promise Alice could almost bite into it."
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"The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer."
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"Work to fulfill your calling."
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"The flowing river nonchalantly reminds us of life: flowing relentlessly, flowing purposelessly. Life without purpose."
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"I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk."
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"Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."
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"Be yourself, be who you can be."
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"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
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"Order is what exists before you start arranging things."
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"But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn't known how to find."
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"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."
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"All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind-the culture-has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives."
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"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."
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"To take my work seriously would be the height of folly."
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"Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle."
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"Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end."
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"In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature."
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"I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its something that makes you happy because that's all that really makes me happy. Why? I'm just listening to my heart and all it's telling me is to understand. Which in a way I can but then again I can't. I'm use to it all though because not everyone lives a fair life if you know what I mean."
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"Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go."
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"It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected."
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"All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West."
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"Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it."
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"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
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"My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime."
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