Clara Jeffery Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I am a contrarian.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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What we need to concentrate on is what we have in common, which is that warrior spirit that's in all of our hearts, that has created us the way we are - to choose to be a part of something so much bigger than ourselves.
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To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.
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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
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