Deborah Lawrenson Quotes
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
Deborah Lawrenson
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Nagarjuna
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
Narendra Modi
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
Natalie Cole
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
E. M. Forster
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Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.
Sidney Royel Selby III
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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
Colson Whitehead
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The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
Barack Obama
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He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.
Hermann Hesse
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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
Billy Eichner
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I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
Deborah Lawrenson
