The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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