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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not… — Margaret Atwood
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was… — Chinua Achebe
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look… — Margaret Atwood
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself… — Sri Aurobindo
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness… — Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of… — Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little… — Jane Austen
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time,… — Paul Auster
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to… — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against… — Teresa of Avila
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There… — Teresa of Avila
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,… — Diane Ackerman
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high… — Jensen Ackles
I want to do something creative, not just easy. — Sebastian Bach
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became… — Amitabh Bachchan

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