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Quotes by Author
"This is a very bad book you're writing, I said to myself behind my leaks. "I know, I said. "You're afraid you'll kill yourself the way your mother did, I said. "I know, I said. There in the cocktail lounge, peering out through my leaks at a world of my own invention, I mouthed this word: schizophrenia. The sound and appearance of the word had fascinated me for many years. It sounded and looked to me like a human being sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes."
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"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."
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"For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
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"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."
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"The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody."
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"Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul."
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"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future."
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"Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities."
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"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."
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"The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is."
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"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."
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"Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected, it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17."
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"When you believe in your beauty, only then can everyone see it."
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"Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before."
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"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness."
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"But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there."
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"Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go."
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"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."
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"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
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"The root of all desire is the realization of NOT HAVING IT!"
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"Gone are the days when 19-inch biceps would once command respect. A Jedi doesn't walk around with their arms flexed and with a thousand yard stare in their eyes. They walk with a good posture, their head held high and with a serious, yet friendly, look on their face."
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"Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree."
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"Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time."
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"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
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"Wouldn't you like to arrive to any event or situation with a sense of confidence and ease that things are as they need to be?"
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"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
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"There is cost for everything."
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"Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to."
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"These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy."
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