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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre. Ian Frazier
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. Gail Carriger
books encourage hear intend meant
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search. Zadie Smith
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark. Zadie Smith
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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. William Osler
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy. Wendi McLendon-Covey
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one. Vincent Bugliosi
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I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. Chuck Palahniuk
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My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel. Chuck Palahniuk
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. Don Marquis
fate artist effort
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! Carl Maria von Weber
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I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. Bethenny Frankel
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. Bernard Berenson
fate organization ideas
The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate. Arnold Schoenberg
fate greatness men
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. Bertrand Russell
fate grace enemy
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. William Shakespeare
fated poet
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals. Octavio Paz
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It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time. Richard Brodhead
order two mind
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize. C. S. Lewis
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Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core Cecelia Ahern
order voice demand
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. Carrie Chapman Catt
order difficult-situations survivor
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift. Carrie Fisher
order quests tiny
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you. Bill Bryson
order
Order doesn't come by itself. Benoit Mandelbrot
order needs might
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships Anthony Storr
order years pay
In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison. Bill Vaughan
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives. Bill Vaughan