Category: writer
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I lost many literary battles the day I read ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God.’ I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
Zadie Smith
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I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.
Michelle Obama
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
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It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
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Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they’re seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn’t that they don’t want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
Marianne Williamson
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare