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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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I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as…
— Elayne Boosler
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Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire…
— Swami Vivekananda
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None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left…
— Hiroyuki Sanada
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals…
— Price Pritchett
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Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine…
— M. Russell Ballard
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I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction…
— River Phoenix
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Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find…
— Eleanor Brown
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A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect…
— James Madison
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Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the…
— Jim Harrison
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It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
— James F. Cooper
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