A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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A picture is worth a thousand words. ~English Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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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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It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish 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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