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A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
Leo Frankowski
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Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world...
Nnedi Okorafor
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor
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Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.
Lois Gould
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Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.
Beverly Lewis
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
S. E. Hinton
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To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.
Emma McLaughlin
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Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Louis L'Amour
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There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
Donald Antrim
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You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?' 'Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -' 'Someone you used to know?' Alec interjected skeptically. 'Someone I used to be.
Lynn Flewelling
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I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to, the rest of us; that they are more intelligent. Not until Vietnam did I finally realize that some of the most important decision of all time can be made by men knowing really no more than, and who are not more intelligent than, most of the rest of us. That it was even possible that my own opinions and judgment could be as good as and maybe better than a politician's who made a decision of profound consequence.
Jack Finney
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He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.
Judith Rossner
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When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.
Ariel Gore
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Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
Philip José Farmer
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No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.
Connie Willis
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I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.
Tony Earley
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A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
Kate Langley Bosher
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
Adam Haslett
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If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.
Frederick Busch
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She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, "Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again.
LaVyrle Spencer
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When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.
Michael Ventura
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I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.
Tama Janowitz
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Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?'
Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It's a groundling thing.
Martha Wells
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I've always believed that luck ranked right up there with brains.
Catherine Coulter
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