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Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it. Chaim Potok
I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it. Stephen King
Look, I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this-" she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume of dust rose up "-thing for the night."I don't take in lodgers."And you'd probably kick a sick dog if he got in your way," she added evenly. Nora Roberts
Sylvia Day quote: "Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows...."
Oh, I’ll fight you,” she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. “That’s the way I roll. Sylvia Day
The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole. Blaise Pascal
She used to say to him, If people knew what I was thinking they would put me away forever. But they would put us all away, he said. They have put us away. We are put away for our thoughts, one way or another. We have put ourselves away, he said. Don DeLillo
I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksand stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said abouthis field, "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Maureen Dowd
Or maybe the ... shock of it started me covering up all kinds of memories the way a squirrel hides a nut and forgets where he's buried it. Haruki Murakami
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with..."
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. Elizabeth Gilbert
Reba McEntire quote: "Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know..."
Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make. Reba McEntire
If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability in some way such that this incommensurability is not evil then no categories are needed other than what Greek philosophy had... and what their wisdom amounts to is the beautiful proposition that basically everything is the same. Soren Kierkegaard
Jules Verne quote: "Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going..."
Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice. Jules Verne
Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person’s time line sideways till they all coincide. Thomas Pynchon
Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries. Laurell K. Hamilton
Terry Prachett quote: "Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about..."
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face. Terry Prachett

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