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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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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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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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish 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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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Beware of a silent dog and still water. ~German Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A drowning man is not troubled by rain. ~Persian Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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