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    Thomas Harris
    “It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
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    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    ― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
    tags: australia, australian, poetry
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    Elmore Leonard
    “Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing

    1. Never open a book with weather.
    2. Avoid prologues.
    3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
    4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
    5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
    6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
    7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
    8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
    9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
    10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

    My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

    If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
    ― Elmore Leonard
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    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    ― Carol Shields
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    “I'm not everyone's cup of tea, because I'm a kick butt cappuccino with extra milk fluff and chocolate sprinkles!”
    ― Jennifer White - Strong Heart Awakening
    tags: coffee, funny, happiness, life, love, quotes, spirituality
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    “When your blood runs black as the blackest night and your heart sounds as the warriors’ march, only then may you say, “I’ve had enough coffee.”
    ― Death Wish Coffee co.
    tags: coffee
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    Amit Ray
    “If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.”
    ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
    tags: anger, awareness, compassion, compassion-quotes, compassion-wisdom, courage, fear, kindness, kindness-quotes, life-and-living, life-experience, life-lesson, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, lifestyle, peace, peace-making, peace-movement, peace-of-mind, peace-quote, pride, tranquility, wisdom, wisdom-of-life
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    “A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
    ― Lois Wyse
    tags: friendship
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    William James
    “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
    ― William James
    tags: connection, friendship, sea
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    Eudora Welty
    “Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.”
    ― Eudora Welty
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    Eudora Welty
    “And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.”
    ― Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
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    Stephen King
    “We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Milton H. Erickson
    “Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
    ― Milton H. Erickson
    tags: change, insight
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    Karina Halle
    “Too many live in the future. If you keep living in the future, in what may be, then the future gets shorter every minute.”
    ― Karina Halle, Red Fox
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    Karina Halle
    “I believe in God. Or some great power beyond what we can imagine. But I think religion is a manmade prison.”
    ― Karina Halle, Red Fox
    tags: god, religion
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    Julian of Norwich
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
    tags: hope-springs-eternal
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    Peter Grey
    “While our culture laments, what have we done wrong? Has no concept of sin, but only consumption. It still knows that something has gone dreadfully awry. Infantilized it helplessly repeats, what, what have we done wrong? It is simple: Mankind has broken the covenant with nature.”
    ― Peter Grey, Apocalyptic Witchcraft
    tags: apocalyptic, nature, paganism, pantheism
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    Howard Thurman
    “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
    ― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
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    Howard Thurman
    “Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    ― Howard Thurman, The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time
    tags: come-alive
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    Howard Thurman
    “There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.”
    ― Howard Thurman
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music
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    Charles Dickens
    “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: cats, gifts, love
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    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    ― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
    tags: cats
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    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
    tags: cat, cat-people, cats, integrity, meditation, peace, sereneity, spirituality, wisdom, zen, zen-master
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    Mark Twain
    “Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: cats
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