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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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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down…
— William Shakespeare
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The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection…
— Rajneesh
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Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as…
— Rajneesh
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Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all…
— Rajneesh
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the…
— May Sarton
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Don't you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people.
— William J. Clinton
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
— Arthur Balfour
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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