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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Beware Blows Come Easy
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

AdBetter Feel Good Guests
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I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
Brings Forward Life Looking
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I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Cool Date Fun Funny
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Body Book Cold Ever
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Come Dawn Door Every
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Birds Economical Going Heaven
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame Fickle Food Plate
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I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.

Away Demographic Get Gonna
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.
Am Fool Hospital I Am
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

About Bundle Car Childhood
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.

Any Borrow Governments Them
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Any Beyond Book Business
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Childhood Doorway Full Met
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

Awards Care Cool Doing
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Actually Any Because Church
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Any Asset Beauty Deep
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Door Honest Just Just Be
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Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. The proof of knowledge is unconditional love.

Love Care Know Proof
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Men are looking for better methods, God is looking for better men. Men are God's method. Use me Lord.

Better God Men Looking
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A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Can Look Lot Negative
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Always Break Breeze Cooling
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Ally Along Even First
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Arms Debates Disarmament Imperative
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Farmer Good Handy Less
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Bloom Blooms Constantly Dark
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad Bad One Face Good
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Another Choose Guide Leading
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Class Country Discover High
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Cheap Could Earth Saved
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Gives Ours Planet Poor
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Afternoon Concern Late May
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

About Anything Boxes Case
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Brain Crowning Evolution Far
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