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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it
— Ted Trueblood
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Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.
— Leon Brown
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A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than…
— Ralph Marston
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Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on…
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You don`t have any problems - only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems. because…
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God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship…
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Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be,…
— Rajneesh
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Iman is to believe, even when an overpowering tide of evil surrounds you.
— Anwar al-Awlaki
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Greater is He that is in you than anything that surrounds you.
— Christine Caine
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Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for…
— Rajneesh
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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to…
— J I Packer
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