All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Author: Isabel Allende

Author: Isabel Allende

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There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad s

Author: Chris Rock
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The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The Lord is my Saviour.

Author: Unknown
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Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

Author: Philip Skelton
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Clouds very high looknot one word helped them get up there

Author: Ikkyu
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The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' whic

Author: Hill Harper
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Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alc

Author: Alexandra Sobetsky
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Author: Mae West
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Heartbreak comes in many forms: infidelity, lies, or a simple, old fashioned break-up. But, there's

Author: J.E. Bolton
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I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their poi

Author: Richard Mourdock
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but t

Author: J. Cole
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They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Author: Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
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Holy freak show!

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
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What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The da

Author: Harrish Sairaman
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Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by d

Author: Rossana Condoleo
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Reflection can be its own reward.

Author: Alena Graedon
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Is there such a thing as being too happy?

Author: Shannon Mullen
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The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Author: Billy Graham
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One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye.

Author: Anthony Liccione
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Author: Bertrand Russell
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A plan that is not written is just an idea.

Author: Dwain Siady
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Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us

Author: Thomas Watson
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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The night is still waiting.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a

Author: Jeffrey Fry
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For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

Author: Marcel Carne
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All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which o

Author: Thomas Merton
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Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint

Author: Dean Karnazes
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Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.

Author: Asa Don Brown
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Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - beca

Author: Jessie J
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I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know

Author: Neil Gaiman
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...'By wisdom a house is built up,And by discernment it is made secure.By knowledge its rooms are fi

Author: Jehovah
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If you despise your people,you will disregard them.If you hate your people,you will harm them.If you

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classica

Author: Kamand Kojouri
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

Author: Randy Pausch
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The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we ope

Author: Mark Stephens
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Art too is just a way of living.

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress

Author: Keanu Reeves
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If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.

Author: RVM
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Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated:

Author: Anne Perry
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Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where the

Author: Chuck Close
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The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of reg

Author: Steven Magee
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You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjuste

Author: Sylvia Day
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Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Author: Henry Petroski
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It is difficult for a man laden with riches to climb the steep path, that leads to bliss

Author: Anonymous
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Author: Euripides
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You can find a better you inside of you. Why don’t you search for that?

Author: Munia Khan
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Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl

Author: Rex Stout
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I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go

Author: Junior Seau
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All my lifei have looked for poemsto elope with.

Author: Sanober Khan
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Be simple

Author: Unknown
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She wet her lips. “And she didn’t warn you about me?”“Should she have?”Erica finished her drink, rel

Author: Lisa Kessler
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To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

Author: Dutch proverb
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Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your

Author: Bill Jensen
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Author: Tom Peters
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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Author: Diane Abbott
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So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned w

Author: Robert Rauschenberg
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Author: John Burroughs
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Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yoursel

Author: Gerard Way
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Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To so

Author: Unknown
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards

Author: Gary Gygax
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When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Author: Alison Espach
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Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.

Author: A.L.O.E.
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The reality is that your dreams pave the way for you. You just have to have the guts to follow them.

Author: Kia Marie Dawkins
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TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are

Author: Jim Gaffigan
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May all humankind find the grace of goodwill.

Author: Unknown
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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Author: Christina Stead
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An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time

Author: Steve Goodier
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She sashayed into the kitchen like she lived there, and grabbed two glasses from the counter, rinsed

Author: Dana Marton
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I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more t

Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- i

Author: Sun Tzu
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't w

Author: Fred McMane
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That was what finally decided me. I wanted to be near him, to touch him, but what I really wanted mo

Author: Cristina Rayne
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What the war did to dreamers.

Author: Anthony Doerr
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In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed

Author: Jennifer Niven
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere nei

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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A true leader invokes the desire to follow in those being led.

Author: Unknown
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Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no

Author: Jane Austen
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Children are great observers.

Author: Unknown
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That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken

Author: Nenia Campbell
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Rose, we are here today. Tomorrow we don’t know where life will take us to. So, as long as we have t

Author: Farzana Zahid
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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

Author: Lionel Shriver
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God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself will

Author: Sigrid Undset
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off,

Author: Charles de Lint
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For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the fir

Author: Frank Gehry
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I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither

Author: Francis Spufford
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Time is wealth from which everything comes.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adul

Author: Alice Hoffman
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I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old rom

Author: Will Estes
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Children are lovable and adorable.

Author: Unknown
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The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last te

Author: V.G. Hiemstra
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He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and st

Author: Raymond Weaver
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The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

Author: Cassandra Clare
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It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I think anytime with your mom, whether she's famous or not, you're watching what she's doing when yo

Author: Jillian Hervey
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I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly

Author: Will Christopher Baer
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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Author: Simon Van Booy
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Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bo

Author: Jay Leno