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		I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
	
	  Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens
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		God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
	
	  Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis
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		Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
	
	  Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey
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		The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
	
	  Octavia Spencer Octavia Spencer
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		I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
	
	  Gabourey Sidibe Gabourey Sidibe
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		Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
	
	  Natalie Dormer Natalie Dormer
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		If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
	
	  Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie
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		It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
	
	  Kage Baker Kage Baker
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		So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
	
	  Karl Marx Karl Marx
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		Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. … those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
	
	  Abraham Joshua Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel
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		One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
	
	  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
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		I was seven years old. What do you know when you’re seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we’d been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.
	
	  Anne Rice Anne Rice
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		It was Sophie Taeuber who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.
	
	  Jean Arp Jean Arp
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		When the spirit of praise had been poured into a man he forgot what he was; he was like a cheap ugly glass made beautiful by the golden wine which filled it. Empty, he knew his ugliness. In prayer, for those as undisciplined and inexperienced as himself, there were times when one scarcely seemed the same person for five minutes together. He took grip on himself and knelt upright, clinging to his belief that one was not the same being; one was the self that one was now in all the disturbance and agitation of weakness, and the self that one would be when the compass needle had once and for all steadied to the north. His hands gripping the sides of the stall, he pronounced in words his belief that even for such as he, if he could endure to the end, eventual perfections was not only possible but certain through the grace of God, his conviction that despair was sin. The prayer of words was all he had now. The discipline of words must hold him up until the desert was crossed and the Seraph could sing again.
	
	  Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth Goudge
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		I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
	
	  Robert James Ritchi Robert James Ritchi
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		It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
	
	  Sally Ride Sally Ride
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		Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
	
	  Sebastian Horsley Sebastian Horsley
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		I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.
	
	  Ryan Adams Ryan Adams