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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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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high…
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Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners…
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I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're…
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However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge…
— Pat Benatar
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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to…
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of…
— Cindy Gerard
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The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into…
— William Goldman
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach,…
— Isabel Allende
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