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Quotes by Author
"Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion."
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"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."
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"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
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"There's never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people."
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"There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so."
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"I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!"
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"Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water."
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"Your brand is that ADHESIVE image you carry, that has the ability to STICK to the minds of people you meet physically or otherwise. Brand yourself positively because whoever gets to know you when passing by takes your image along!"
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"Deep connection is the antidote to madness."
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"He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation."
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"For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified."
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"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
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"I am not a victim of circumstance, situation, nor any external condition of life. I am an active participant in the creation of my reality, meaning, I am actively participating in the creation of what I think, what I feel, what I spend my time on, who I spend my time with, what I consume mentally and physically, and all the blessings and contrastive experiences that come my way. Every effect has a cause and every cause has an effect, all of which include me because it is my life to live, my life to use, and my life to enjoy."
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"Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment."
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"If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get."
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"From this day forward, you will be my sun at dawn and my stars at night, and I vow to love and cherish you for all our days."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't."
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"Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs."
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"Helping another person will instantly shift your energy. As you go from being self-absorbed to focusing on others, miracles seem to happen. And incredible impressions are made."
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"Dear God, save us from The Church!"
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"The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed."
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"Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it."
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"It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves."
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"I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creature's life. But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war."
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"For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ['Another empty room']"
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"When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle."
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"Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret."
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"Success is no magic, grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!"
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