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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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Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
— Julia Cameron
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I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit…
— Rod Carew
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I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like…
— Unknown Author
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
— Doris Lessing
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When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.
— Unknown Author
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Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how…
— Rajneesh
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Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material…
— Timothy Olyphant
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the…
— Fred Brooks
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So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And…
— Robyn
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It's a long journey - the change can only be measured in increments of five years at a time. For every two…
— Jack Norris
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Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward.…
— Jerry I. Porras
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To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the…
— Leon Spinks
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