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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
— Aldous Huxley
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I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour…
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an…
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Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With…
— William Cowper
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't…
— Edith Wharton
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When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with…
— Francis Spufford
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The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking…
— Annie Dillard
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if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd…
— Tupac Shakur
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I love you so much.... I've never been so physically, mentally, and emotionally attached to someone, like I am to you. I've…
— Unknown Author
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I take 15 minutes to drop a track. I take half a minute to load my gat.
— Lil Flip
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