I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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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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One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. ~Japanese Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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