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Quote by Flannery OConnor
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. – Flannery OConnor

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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. – Flannery OConnor

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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over Gods business. – Flannery OConnor

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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. – Julius Caesar

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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity… – Heinrich Heine (d.1856), “Ideas: Book Le Grand,” 1826, translated from German by

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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. – Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945, referring to psychoanalysis

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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. – Michel de Montaigne

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Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. – Euripides

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Most of the gaffes Ive made have not been funny – theyve been stupid. – Jim Lehrer

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Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have “quotation” thrust upon them. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, its all there, at least the basic elements of it. You cant change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. – Stephen King

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