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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

After Again Carry Harry
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Better Clearer Fiction Saying
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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

You Loved Show Fault
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

After Claims Diligently Elizabeth
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Against Ashamed Bothering Hold
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Fresh mind Body Drain Yesterday
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Enthusiasm Genius Sincerity Truth
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Climbing Depression Efforts Entails
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Best Could Did Had
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Surest Evidence Friendship Display
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

About Anything Away Because
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Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

Action Driving Worship Response
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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Accomplished Planned Enough
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Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They clash against each other and confute each other. They neutralize each other and are lost.

Wrong Fails Untruth Inconsistent
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This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.

Hurt Night People Broken
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.

One D Everything Grace
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Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Perfection Remain Privilege Gods
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Accomplish Courageous Enough He
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Anything Friendship Learn Learned
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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Bureau Donate Face He
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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Bad Beat Hat He
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I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

About Brother Champ Down
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Able Away Give Mandatory
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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Ahead Climb Mountains Out
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Thanksgiving is a covenant access to the throne of God for help. When you knock on the door of heaven in worship, thanksgiving and gratitude, it opens to you instantly.

Thanksgiving Covenant Throne God
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I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Better BetterWorld Else Everybody
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Animals Capacity Earth Empathize
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

Allowed Break Consequence Doing
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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Love means understanding, trust, sharing and giving.

Love Means Trust Sharing
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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A woman must be ready to be in a man’s house before she gets in there. If not, at the end of the day, she will walk out of the marriage before anyone knows it.

Woman Ready End Day
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Art ArtForm Bad Changed
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Get Going How Idea
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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Career Extend Fresh Keep
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A successful woman is not known by the number of material things she has, or how expensive they are, but by the number of lives she has impacted positively.

Successful Woman Material things
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One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Beneath Big Create Done
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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Everybody Little Own Say
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Around Fashion Feel Taste
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As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time

Applying Ends History Just
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Parents, teach your children what it means to be grateful. Ingratitude has cost many people their great destinies, this is why children need to learn how to show gratitude to both God and man.

Gratitude Parents Teach Ingratitude
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Accept Another Anything Astronomy
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Center Finally Himself Place
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
Blown Day Everyone Mind
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Advisor Allowed Friends Had
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Book Done Every Found
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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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