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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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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a…
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I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I…
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In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.
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Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where…
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Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which…
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I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars…
— Roberto Duran
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of…
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…
— Mervyn Peake
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In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines,…
— Ken Wilber
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When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds…
— Ken Wilber
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My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!
— Dave Matthews
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Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
— Andy Zaltzman
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