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Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you.
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Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
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