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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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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see…
— David Attenborough
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find…
— David Attenborough
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Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie,…
— Brad Pitt
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Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does…
— Michael Josephson
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Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
— Irena Sendler
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At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
— James A. Baldwin
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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
— Unknown Author
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Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of…
— Brad Pitt
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
— Twiggy
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It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving…
— Deepak Chopra
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The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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