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Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.

Brian Jacques

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Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Chinua Achebe

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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Mary Shelley

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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

José Rizal

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To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

Anita Desai

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Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Allan Gurganus

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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

C.S. Lewis

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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Art Spiegelman

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Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep- it can't be done abruptly.

Colm Tóibín

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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Richard Wright

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I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

John Steinbeck

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anaïs Nin

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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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