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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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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his…
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I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to…
— John Hay
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I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view,…
— Hugh Hefner
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I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have…
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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but…
— John Grisham
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Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really…
— Matt LeBlanc
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One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be…
— Unknown Author
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I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this…
— Joseph Murray
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I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just…
— Rick Baker
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