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		I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
	
	  Patricia Marx Patricia Marx
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		Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
	
	  Oren Peli Oren Peli
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		If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
	
	  Dana Carvey Dana Carvey
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		Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
	
	  L. Lionel Kendrick L. Lionel Kendrick
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		You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
	
	  Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso
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		I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
	
	  Olivia Colman Olivia Colman
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		While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
	
	  H. G. Wells H. G. Wells
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		Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
	
	  David Soul David Soul
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		When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
	
	  Aaron Patzer Aaron Patzer
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		Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
	
	  Mary Garden Mary Garden
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		Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
	
	  Terry Eagleton Terry Eagleton
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		I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
	
	  Barbara Park Barbara Park