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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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And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.
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Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and…
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The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for…
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If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
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A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it…
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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.'…
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Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow…
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To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.
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She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized…
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Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,…
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Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am…
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