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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Dictate Dimensions Emerge Habit
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Charm Cheerful Great Personal
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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Around Few Look Place
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Aim Choice Desire Doing
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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Ambition Down High Higher
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Another Between Day Difference
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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Declaration First Independence Interdependence
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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Bravely Cheerfully Faithfully Immortality
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Bound Critic Dismal Every
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Because Chance Gives Glad
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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Eternity Fear Grieve Long
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Friend Heart Needs Time
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Courage Fire Genius Set
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Depends Fear Nothing Peace
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Being Best Culture Habit
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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Belong Become Are What
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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Best Lives Longest Love
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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Depend Does Happiness Inward
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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Agreeable Always Best Greatest
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Best Birds Except Possess
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Heart Listening Necessary Never
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Belong Death Forever Found
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Express Feeling Following Gratitude
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Desert Journey Life Life Is A Journey
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Affected Aging Challenges Creates
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Ever Given Laughter Line
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Childhood Father Me Take
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Hand Like Long Still
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

About Between Books I Think
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Writing has never been that simple for me.

Been Me Never Simple
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Before Father Hate Hated
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I don't believe in happy families.
Believe Families Happy
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

About Books I Love Journeys
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.

God Heaven Just Literary
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Article Faith Forever Inside
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Always Better LoAlways Better
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

End Good Good Meal Meal
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Art Central Fact Father
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Beach Book Came Couple
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Contain Expressed Family Frail
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There is a greater prison than Kuje; it is the conscience of men. A President who was sponsored with stolen money by a thief, is in a greater prison with the thief. And it shall manifest soon

Greater Prison Kuje Conscience
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