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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra -
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
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One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000) -
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics -
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
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One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
A casual commentary -
One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
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