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Quotes by Writer
"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."
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"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
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"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."
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"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
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"I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong"
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"Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity."
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"Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burning light like honey in the shade."
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"For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion."
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"In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself."
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"When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it."
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"Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully."
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"We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it."
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"And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away."
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
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"I cried and I cried and I cried. I wasn't crying because I was happy. I wasn't crying because I was sad. I wasn't crying because of my mother or my father or Paul. I was crying because I was full...I didn't feel like a big fate idiot anymore. And I didn't feel like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen. I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too."
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"Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part."
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
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"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts."
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"Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero."
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"What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I'm sorry. I was just so tired.I meant in the dream."
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"I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping."
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"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
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"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."
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"Unfair prejudice can result people being living with fear and unfair treatment if it is based on physical appearance. Therefore, this conflict should be intervened seriously and violators of this act of hate crime should get punished and understand deeply about the significance of human existence, so they can get pressured to change and act morally."
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"There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency."
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"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."
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"If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever."
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"It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance."
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"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."
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"If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little."
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"Rape is something very obscene and this act must always be intervened by authorities, so victims will not end up suffering from a post traumatic disorder."
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"I found myself when I least expected you - at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see?"
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"Contentment achieve inwardly change outer realities."
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