Quotes 121 till 140 of 181.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
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Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.
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My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
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Only dead people need loud music.
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) -
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
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Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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