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- When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on…
- Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
- Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the…
- If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
- Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no…
- Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
- If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.
- Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the…
- When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
- People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
- I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and…
- I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it…
- In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk…
- The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort…
- What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny…
- When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find…
- There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will…
- Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow…
- Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
- The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold