It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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God does not change; and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born. He loves you now; and He will love you forever. ~Billy Graham
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
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