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Ctors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.
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It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
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I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
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There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that
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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.
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Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be able to cope with whatever is going on. So even being able to, like I said, share this gift with so many other people, it's definitely very therapeutic. It helps me just to focus and to be able to kind of get out those emotions that I'm having without reacting in such a way that's not acceptable in society.
