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- Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
- Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on…
- I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's…
- From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
- It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive…
- These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong