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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense…
— Unknown Author
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
— Edna Ferber
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The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of…
— Doris Lessing
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Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
— Veronica Roth
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Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,…
— Neil Gaiman
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I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not…
— Neil Gaiman
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We stare at broken clocks, the hands don't turn anymore The days turn into nights, empty hearts and empty places.
— KevinTerribly
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What we look for is not to fill empty places with children, but to fill empty children with a good place to…
— Unknown Author
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