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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of c...more

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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that...more

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. India...more

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There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Pr...more

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‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

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Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

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Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who set herself the task of falling in love with ...more

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The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

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When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. Th...more

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A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

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He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin an...more

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Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

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If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

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Maybe in the case of true human, their mind, their soul, their consciousness flows through their bodies like blood, inhabiting every cell of their phy...more