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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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One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a…
— Renata Adler
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Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
— Leonard Maltin
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I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again,…
— Emile Hirsch
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back.…
— Ed McMahon
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At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
— John Locke
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers…
— Yann Martel
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The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen…
— Sylvia Plath
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I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of…
— Karen Chance
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Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
— David Levithan
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