All writers have their own pet commandments.

Author: Darin Strauss

Author: Darin Strauss

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One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Author: Anaïs Nin
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Michael and Gabriel-"Creatures of an unremembered beginning, born of light and sent to protect this

Author: Jon Steele
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed f

Author: John James Audubon
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Believe in yourself, you can do whatever you want.

Author: Unknown
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It is hard to die unmourned.

Author: George R.R. Martin
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Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was a

Author: G.K. Chesterton
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Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afr

Author: Demi Lovato
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions

Author: Ken Robinson
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This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragon

Author: Tai
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Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go

Author: Lucy Christopher
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You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon

Author: William Kent Krueger
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The burden of information often makes us blind wisdom opens our eyes.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

Author: Pandora Poikilos
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Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shout

Author: Elbert Hubbard
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If it has to be it's up to me.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #205508

Every problem has a solution, even if we do not know the answer

Author: Catherine Miller
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Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that o

Author: Liz Kessler
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--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my han

Author: David James Duncan
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Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

Author: Peter Kreeft
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I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who P

Author: Lauren Barnholdt
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It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely es

Author: Unknown
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca

Author: Mark Twain
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Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you’ll never have all of them. And that’s okay. Sometimes curio

Author: Michael Holbrook
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Oh the lovely fickleness of an April day!

Author: W. H. Gibson
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He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river

Author: Erin Bowman
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I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and s

Author: Josephine de La Baume
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The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table,

Author: Leila Sales
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If Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, if the Holy Spirit lives in you, then God guarantees your s

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Author: Sharon Salzberg
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There is divinity in the clouds.

Author: Unknown
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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Author: Gene Wilder
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Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Author: Thomas Eakins
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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and n

Author: Thomas Paine
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Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Author: Beverly Lewis
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Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

Author: Karen Marie Moning
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I like simple men and complicated women.

Author: Don DeLillo
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Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains.

Author: Walter E. Jacobson
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Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

Author: C. S. Lewis
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Author: Samuel Goldwyn
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Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as

Author: George R.R. Martin
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Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.

Author: Franz von Holzhausen
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Uncouth thoughts can come take possession of the sweetest mind. That happens to you, you got to keep

Author: Penelope Kahler Swan
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Your Mistakes don't define you, rather it directs you towards your goal and leads you to victory.

Author: Hardik Desai
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But men have loved darkness rather than light.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Author: Paul Ricoeur
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What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

Author: Richard Siken
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The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in

Author: Michael Jacobs
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know t

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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In life, we are constantly growing.There are no true adults because our life experiences and sometim

Author: Henry Johnson Jr
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Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of

Author: Bryant McGill
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He's my father!" she bellowed, pointing to Trevanion."Vestie!" Beatriss said firmly, stopping to sta

Author: Melina Marchetta
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Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore

Author: William Blake
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Psychotropic drugs have also been organized according to structure (e.g., tricyclic), mechanism (e.g

Author: Benjamin James Sadock
Quote #199571

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Author: Patricia Highsmith
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Whether or not we sense and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit or one of the holy angels, by faith

Author: Billy Graham
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Author: Malcolm Forbes
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The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too mess

Author: Peggy Webb
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce

Author: Umberto Eco
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If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfa

Author: Max Stirner
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Sadness is like growing of hairs around our ass; we may not like it or want it, but it is surprising

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely di

Author: José Saramago
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A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and believe

Author: Carol Oates
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Cease, daughter!" said the priest at last in a trembling voice. "I cannot grant absolution, no pries

Author: Anya Seton
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Author: Maya Angelou
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It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive,

Author: Carew Papritz
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Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

Author: Kathryn Lasky
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Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote t

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre

Author: Jean Rostand
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I hate that word. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get called cur

Author: Nina LaCour
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A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value wit

Author: Idries Shah
Quote #16238

Gukora icyaha uri wenyine biroroha ariko kuramya Imana wenyine biragora

Author: Dr Paul Gitwaza
Quote #388

We are all worthy of one another.

Author: Edward P. Jones
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Author: Anita Baker
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What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own

Author: Meg Jay
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted him

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
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You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

Author: Jason Evert
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Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was

Author: Christopher Huh
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Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.

Author: Karen Chance
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I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I

Author: Lawrence Kasdan
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I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Author: Regina Spektor
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I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more

Author: Shannon Hale
Quote #436481

I always make my dreams into goals.

Author: DJ Khaled
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In my experience, there never seems to be a man or woman who will walk in and literally sweep you of

Author: Jennifer Salaiz
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Author: Robert Lynd
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The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

Author: Shakira
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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or th

Author: George Orwell
Quote #238554

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

Author: Wayde Goodall
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Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply

Author: Lynn Jurich
Quote #315118

Zen has a pronounced iconoclastic tendency, and regards the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as

Author: Damien Keown
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Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines a

Author: Paulo Coelho
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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of

Author: Jim Woodring
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Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place

Author: Thomas Menino
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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, e

Author: Miguel de Unamuno
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Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so,' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot ha

Author: Poul Anderson
Quote #371858

Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.

Author: Anurag Wadehra
Quote #94678

When love and duty are one then grace is within your soul.

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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The world is moving at a slow pace. Each day I get up and I feel the world must have moved ahead far

Author: Swaraj Priyadarshi
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Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt,

Author: Hina Hashmi