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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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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ...…
— Antonin Artaud
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Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting…
— Oswald Chambers
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If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.
— Simon Sinek
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It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It…
— Vance Palmer
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful…
— Yann Martel
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If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
— Lauren Oliver
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We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for…
— Antonin Artaud
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Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,…
— Louis Sachar
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Just choose to be yourself and give things your best shot; the rest will take care of itself.
— Suman Rai
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