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Quotes by Author
"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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"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
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"Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime, theft of individual worth."
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"Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts."
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"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
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"My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!"
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"Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain."
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"We exist just to feel the joy of life."
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"I think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide."
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"I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame."
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"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
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"Say It Out Loud: I AM beautiful. I AM worthy. I AM somebody. I DO deserve to be genuinely loved. I DO deserve to be respected. I DO deserve happiness."
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"You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming."
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"A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport."
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"I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you."
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"Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage."
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"My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones."
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"So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter."
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"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."
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"The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies."
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"She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!"
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"Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be."
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"He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601."
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"The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them."
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"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."
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"Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion."
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"I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so."
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"Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing."
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"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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"Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too."
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"You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through."
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"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."
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"There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction."
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"I love you as river loves the ocean."
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"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."
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"Well, on some level, it's similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother."
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"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
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