Cynthia Ozick Quotes
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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I bought a girl roses once.
Cameron Dallas
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Karen Thompson Walker
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Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
David Hilbert
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
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The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'
Dalai Lama
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
William Styron
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Literature is for the sake of humanity.
Cynthia Ozick
