Lao Tzu Quotes
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
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Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
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Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
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I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.
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I like being with my family. That's my party.
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For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.
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You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots.
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
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YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.
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Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.
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How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye – The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.
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Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Observe how endings become beginnings.
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.
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As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
