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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...”
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“My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.”
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“I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.”
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“Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.”
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“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”
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“I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.”
Source : Jack Vance (1950). “The Dying Earth”, p.199, Spatterlight Press
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“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.”
Source : "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.
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“If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.”
Source : Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
