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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to…
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Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination…
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for…
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
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God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His…
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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
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Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot…
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I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them…
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It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows,…
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A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made…
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..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in…
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In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt…
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Take events logically one by one; ask yourself what is your dharma pertaining to a given event; and do it; and move…
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