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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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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
— Ingrid Bergman
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this…
— Bill Bradley
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a…
— John Bunyan
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
— William S. Burroughs
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
— Agatha Christie
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye…
— John Green
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