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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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Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
— Nancy Reagan
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When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next…
— Zach Braff
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Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
— Bertrand Russell
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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To all my friends, readers, and students: I apologize for not being able to write you directly, however the God and Goddess have…
— Donald Michael Kraig
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There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the…
— Frank Zappa
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The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to…
— Richelle Mead
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Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?" "Oh, please," CeeCee said.…
— Meg Cabot
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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected…
— Yann Martel
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