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Mary Doria Russell has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way…
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The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
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I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe…
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Tradition was safety; change was danger.
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When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is:…
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If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be…
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to…
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The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet…
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Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that…
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense,…
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Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand…
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
— Charlotte Bronte
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…
— Ben Jonson
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
— George Mikes
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
— Robert Graves
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Revile those who flatter you.
— Rumi
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They…
— Solomon Northup
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