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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they…
— Susan B. Anthony
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When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily,…
— Jean de Joinville
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I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in…
— Dyan Cannon
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Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread…
— Rajneesh
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions…
— Rose Macaulay
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared…
— Ursula Andress
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.…
— Janis Joplin
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African American Congressman Bobby Rush wore a hoodie on the floor of Congress to make a point this week. And they threw…
— Bill Maher
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I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
— Nora Ephron
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The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking…
— St. Jerome
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For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour…
— Kanye West
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells…
— Gary Gygax
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