If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Fortune favors the bold. ~English Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug! ~Rachel Caine
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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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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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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