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Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm,… — Terry Goodkind
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which… — Salman Rushdie
The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore… — Cecelia Ahern
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are,… — Colleen McCullough
I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy. — Vera Nazarian
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of… — Andrew Sean Greer
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and… — Patti Smith
I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to… — Chaim Potok
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top… — Charles Bukowski
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how… — Haki R. Madhubuti
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life — Salvador Dali
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to… — Gilles Deleuze
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard? — Lisa See
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. — Isabel Allende
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and… — Janet Fitch
But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out… — Lewis Hyde
I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of… — C.S. Lewis
It's for upset stomachs,' Dylan said, trying to hide a smile. He pointed to the words in the box. 'It's to reduce gas in your… — James Patterson
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But… — Patti Smith

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