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Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.
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In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.
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My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.
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If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.
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I think my immediate reaction was, "I'm so tired. I need a little more time." But, it was very quickly followed up by excitement. It's very flattering, and it's a wonderful vote of confidence. We dream of getting to do what we do.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.
