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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is…
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill…
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,…
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign…
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other…
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it…
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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and…
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And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder,…
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
— Joseph Addison
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow…
— Terry Kay
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…
— Unknown Author
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
— Wallace Stevens
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I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because…
— Bobbie Ann Mason
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The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living,…
— John McLeod
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The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
— Elliott Smith
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Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story,…
— Lauren DeStefano
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
— Susan Griffin
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The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns;…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
— Anne Stevenson
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