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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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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
— Frank Moore Colby
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There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not…
— Dalai Lama
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it…
— Al Oerter
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
— Rowan Atkinson
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This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are…
— Harry Reasoner
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I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective,…
— Richard Gere
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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
— Lois Lowry
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There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.
— Tom Sharpe
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For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as…
— Tom Robbins
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Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
— Joshua Waitzkin
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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times…
— Paul Desmond
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