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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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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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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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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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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…
— Doris Lessing
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Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
— Calvin Miller
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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
— Lord Byron
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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
— Drew Barrymore
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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When…
— George R. R. Martin
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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
— Anne Sexton
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Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt,…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Success...is like a dynamo that transforms our toils into energy that powers a bulb deep in us. The light attracts, and the…
— Unknown Author
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