Category: writer
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
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Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn’t be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn’t be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.
Arundhati Roy
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‘Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?’ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.
Michelle Obama
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust
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Duty – that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce
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People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
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I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.
Michelle Obama
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Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.
Joyce Meyer
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
John Steinbeck