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In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in…
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The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.
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After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to…
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Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it…
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It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
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Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,…
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A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
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I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's…
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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as…
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Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware…
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Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made…
— Sri Chinmoy
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For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable…
— Richard Avedon
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Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
— David Richo
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new…
— Toni Packer
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
— Matsuo Basho
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got…
— Thornton Wilder
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If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting…
— Daniel Handler
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I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was…
— Lauren Oliver
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Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the…
— Louise Penny
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I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world.…
— Ari Berk
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This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching…
— Chris O'Donnell
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