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Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause-and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause-one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.
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'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
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Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
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'You can afford me,' said Jane. 'I’m cheap and you’re rich.'
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She can’t help her red skin, and she isn’t heathen. In fact, she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!
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You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
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