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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ~Tim Murphy
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese Proverb
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
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He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
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