What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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A friend is known when needed. ~Saudi Proverb
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish 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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. ~Ray Liotta
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~Irish Proverb
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear. ~Irish Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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