I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive. ~William Shatner
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen 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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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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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 want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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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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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
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