Eileen Wilks Quotes
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.
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The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
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It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
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Honestly, there isn't anywhere in the world that I can say I would never travel to, given the opportunity.
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That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other.
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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.
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He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
