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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
— Andre Gide
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Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
— Anne, Princess Royal
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
— Virginia Woolf
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it…
— Karch Kiraly
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
— Wes Fesler
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There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to…
— Lance Armstrong
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I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
— Unknown Author
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Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of…
— James Madison
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If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration…
— Alexander Hamilton
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