One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two. ~Chinese Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations, well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing. ~James Cromwell
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
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