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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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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever…
— Vivien Leigh
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Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even…
— Johann Arndt
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy…
— Queen Victoria
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If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be…
— David Antin
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
— Edward Abbey
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If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
— Charles Stanley
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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
— Ruth Rendell
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There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
— John Stark
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Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow,
— John Stark
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