Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

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A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different p…

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When the old men fight, the young people die.

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For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umber…

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I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring pas…

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There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When yo…

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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

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We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

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...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

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