Category: writer
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Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
Charles Bukowski
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Woody Allen
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People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce Meyer
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I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.
Douglas Adams
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren’t controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn’t believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it’s owned by a small group of people, we realize it’s biased, etc.
Marianne Williamson
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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert Camus
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I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.
J. K. Rowling