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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever ...more

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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the lovi...more

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We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully an...more

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If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, ...more

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If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make ...more

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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Wh...more

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Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

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If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

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But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.