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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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As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one…
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The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal…
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I’m not the only kid who grew up this way. Surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and…
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Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six…
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People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts…
— Jessica Sorensen
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Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put…
— Marlene Dietrich
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The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with…
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When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
— Shia LaBeouf
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