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Quotes by Author
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
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"But I did feel the vertigo of death's invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy " and obscenely cowardly " after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on."
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"You're not going to start screaming sonnets outside my bedroom window, are you?He winked. 'I just might."
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"Self-esteem is the switch in the circuit of your life that dims or brightness of your future. Bring it low and you don't shine your light, raise it up and you brighten the corner where you are."
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"Ove could not in all honesty remember how it all started. It wasn't the sort of dispute where you did remember. It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled that every new word was treacherously booby-trapped, and in the end it wasn't possible to open one's mouth at all without setting off at least four unexploded mines from earlier conflicts. It was the sort of argument that had just run, and run, and run. Until one day it just ran out."
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"Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating."
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"Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect."
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"The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions."
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"Thank you for helping my sister, he says.I lean forward, mimicking his position. 'I'm happy to.Calliope leans out her window. 'STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK."
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"You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the immediate future and instead focuses on generations to come and how your actions today will impact them long after you are gone."
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"But there is one person who expected the unexpected from me and the only time I noticed disappointment on his face was when I cowered like a sheep. And I had to take a moment to figure out I'm not ashamed of him. It's him who should be ashamed of me. I've put Razor in an unfair position. He introduced me to his world. Welcomed me with open arms. Made me feel like I belonged and I've asked him to keep a secret when doing so is killing him. And I told him that we would be over...I did the exact thing to him that Clara did to me and that's not okay. No part of it is okay."
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"At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write."
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"I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English, it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them, then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."
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"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation."
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"You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind, no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!"
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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"Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself."
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"You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it."
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"At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous."
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"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
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"There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud."
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."
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"That's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time."
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"People can have great riches, but without honesty, they never have true respect.People can have abundant love, but without honesty, they never have real trust.People can have many friends, but without honesty, they never have loyalty.People can have sharp minds, but without honesty, they never have admiration.People can have fame, but without honesty, they never have honor.Without honesty, a person's light may flicker, but it will never truly shine.Without honesty, people are left with only lies."
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"Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed."
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"Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I'm on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life - neat!"
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"To ENSURE greater success, celebrate your progess daily."
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"I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian"
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"My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm."
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"There is a difference between a calling and an assignment."
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"He's exasperated. 'I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!"
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"You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!"
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"But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless."
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"Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance."
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