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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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This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Critics Feelings Hurt Know
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

Anxious Been Between Blogging
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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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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

About Book Easy Finishing
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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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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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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Rebellions Belly Worst Power
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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Natural Infant Painful Die
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Contend Enemy Folly Gates
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Look Fortune Blind Invisible
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Price Market Fortune Fall
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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life Age Miserable Happy
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

People Wise First Living
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

Follow Iliction Return Flag
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

People Musical Comedy English
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Ethical Giants Infants Know
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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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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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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Abhorrent Advocate Challenge Conviction
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Because Being Feeling Flourish
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Always Imitation Opponents Poor
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

About Familiar First Form
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Light Spaceship Speed Traveling
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Casual Circus Guy Head
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I like to reminisce with people I don't know

People Know Reminisce
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Headlights Lights Like Looks
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Box Child Eventually Had
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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Above Apartment Furious Live
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Country Cross Great Live
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I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Chain Dollar Everybody Fax
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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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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Advertising Executive Only Saw
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Beautiful Feminine Masculine Men
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own

Camera Eventually Everyone Makes
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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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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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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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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Certain Course Critic Entire
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Balance However Lie May
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