We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ~Ferdinand Mount
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese 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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Anger is the one thing made better by delay. ~English Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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