Lynn Abbey Quotes
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am a Zionist.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
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I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.
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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.
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I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited!
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The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.