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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Accepted Being Desperately Grew
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Able Being Both Deep
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When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Determines Happens How React
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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

About Any Blown Changed
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Always Cliff Control Hoping
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Discovering Fantasy Forever Ideas
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Pencil Affiction Solomon Job
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Better Course Creative Endeavors
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Sort Part Experience Education
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man Philosophy Religion Depth
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything Garden Library You
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude Greatest Only Others
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God Exercise Intellect Side
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bravery Capacity Death Even
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act Acting Battle Circumstances
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Continue Develop May Our
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Dead Fail Guilt Prevent
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Designed Ever Intangible Leadership
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

Black Definitely Integrated Officers
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Alone Army Believing Control
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Being Defend Dignity Europe
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Alone Chance Environment Golden
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Become Control Destiny Fail
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Deeper Grow Happen How
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Breakfast French Ordered Restaurant
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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Batteries Bought Included Some
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George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Announcer Bridge George Hear
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Argument Considered Got Long
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

People Power Store Trapped
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Answers Destroy Interesting Only
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility

Capitalism Expansion Ideology Indefinite
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Model Occupies Our Part
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Animation Charms Depression Melancholy
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Form Lying Most Simple
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Elementary Lying Means Self
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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