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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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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We…
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world…
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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside…
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I love a man who knows how to walk. I do like a gentleman, a man who opens the door and a…
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so,…
— Dorothy Parker
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I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.
— Helen Frankenthaler
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go…
— Dorothy Allison
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
— Dale Carnegie
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I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean
— Edie Brickell
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I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure,
— Steven Curtis Chapman
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Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
— Richard Ford
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