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The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your… — Frank Zappa
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is… — John Piper
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, itâ€™s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… — Eve Ensler
How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus) Why not? (Jericho)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,… — Audre Lorde
Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to… — Mark Twain
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. — Mary E. Pearson
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. — Charles de Lint
Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do,… — Mira Grant
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. — Herbert Marcuse
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have… — Deb Caletti
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can… — Elliot Perlman
Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what… — Stephen Levine
There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single… — Jonathan Maberry
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human… — Aberjhani
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself.… — Orson Scott Card

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