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

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

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The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

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When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped …

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I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next …

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It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

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When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control fr…

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Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

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it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

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The story is always better than your ability to write it.

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The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a stor…

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