Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
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I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic 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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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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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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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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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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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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