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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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Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial,…
— Julia Serano
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Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not…
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I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't…
— Philippe Starck
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We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
— Pema Chodron
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I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic.…
— Lisa Edelstein
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But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't…
— Kevin Kline
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the…
— Brennan Manning
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As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and…
— Yann Martel
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Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is…
— Maurice Sendak
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue…
— Dustin Yellin
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Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with…
— Virginia Postrel
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