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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
— A. S. Byatt
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A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
— Beatrix Potter
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully…
— Lewis Carroll
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the…
— Annie Dillard
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
— Holly Black
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Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws.…
— Cassandra Clare
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How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! The Caterpillar
— Alice In Wonderland
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