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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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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There…
— Joe Abercrombie
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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.…
— Yann Martel
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Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.'…
— Dale Carnegie
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy…
— August Strindberg
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I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…
— Kenneth Patchen
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We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in…
— Brigham Young
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In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat…
— Luke Scott
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As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will…
— Tom Robbins
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It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of…
— Janet Fitch
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The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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