A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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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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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. ~Howard W. Hunter
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. ~Harry Blamires
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Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Atrial fibrillation can be taken care of. The point is that it is manageable. Everybody is different and will have different ways of managing whatever they need, and their doctor will have ways of managing theirs. But I think the first key is just to know it exists, know whether you have it, and know what the risks are and take care of yourself! ~Howie Mandel
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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