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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my…
— E L Konigsburg
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A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip…
— Barbara Johnson
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
— Ann Voskamp
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If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -…
— Peter Zumthor
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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
— Nigella Lawson
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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of…
— Stephen Hawking
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there,…
— Doris Lessing
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