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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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I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,…
— George Santayana
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We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!
— Sam Torrance
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a…
— Henrik Ibsen
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I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
— Terence Stamp
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I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my…
— Thom Yorke
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I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our…
— Freddie Mercury
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I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises.…
— Sue Townsend
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
— Oscar Wilde
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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is…
— William Allen White
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I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
— Lisa Ling
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