Freya Stark Quotes
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.
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It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
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Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.
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The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
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There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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I knew as a possibility, but I was kinda shocked.
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The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.
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How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?
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The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.
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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
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When I have to be in public, I can't be in a bad mood.
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.
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There aren't any moral victories.
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All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
