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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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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their…
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift…
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and…
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Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in…
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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and…
— Sri Aurobindo
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For…
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…
— Jeff Cooper
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Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings…
— Anne Monroe
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In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with…
— Jacquetta Hawkes
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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody…
— Lord Byron
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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