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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
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The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that…
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent…
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We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to…
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Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired…
— Unknown Author
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There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which…
— Paul Bartsch
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These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as…
— Harvey Broome
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…
— Salman Rushdie
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We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well,…
— Hans Asperger
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The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
— Ken Liu
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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
— William Cowper
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