Adam Silvera Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind's singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
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You just keep working and try to have quality at-bats.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.
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All my books center around death in some way.
