S. S. McClure Quotes
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.'
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I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
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Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
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They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
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I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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There is no one left, none but all of us.
