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““I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.””

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Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

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“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers and Mike.…

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“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

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“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.”

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“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the…

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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

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“Metal makes everything magical. Just ask a unicorn.”

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We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but…

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The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

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Curiosity Can Kill.

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“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.”

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“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not…

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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…

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Be curious not judge mental

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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

Gertrude Atherton

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Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't…

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