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Wallace Stegner quote: "You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control..."
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength. Wallace Stegner
Jeanette Winterson quote: "You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be..."
You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own. Jeanette Winterson
Leon Trotsky quote: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Leon Trotsky
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light. Friedrich Nietzsche
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. Terry Prachett
Cormac McCarthy quote: "You are either born a writer or you are not."
You are either born a writer or you are not. Cormac McCarthy
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. Rene Daumal
You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, "I did that. Ricky Gervais
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."But it keeps not ending."So far, so good. Orson Scott Card
Charlie Chaplin quote: "You need Power, only when you wantto do something..."
You need Power, only when you wantto do something harmfulotherwise. Love is enough to get everything done. Charlie Chaplin
You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"It's a distance that can't be measured."Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's. Haruki Murakami
You understood that there was no better thing in the world than to be kissed in the way she was kissing you, that this was without argument the single most important justification for being alive. Paul Auster
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip. W. Somerset Maugham
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said..."
You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling. Laurell K. Hamilton
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers Horace

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