Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.
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They look right. And you move left.
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I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.
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In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.
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Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.
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One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.
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I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
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Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
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[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
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A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
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If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
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A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.
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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you’re mature. They make things up about you.
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Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.
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Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.
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A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.
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A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
