Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching "Coronation Street." ~Amelia Warner
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch 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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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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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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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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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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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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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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Advice when most needed is least heeded. ~English Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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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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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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