One must not be shy where language is concerned.
– Ann Patchett
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- Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. – Julia Heywood
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- Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers. – Ann Patchett
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- Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. – Ann Patchett
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- Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. – Ann Patchett
- Isn’t that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered? – Ann Patchett
- We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership. – Ann Patchett
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- Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world – Ann Patchett
- Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. – Ann Patchett
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- The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
- The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
- Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
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- It was something, what must go through men’s mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely. – Larry McMurtry
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- Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. – Rick Riordan
- Obstacles must be overcome.Problems must be solved.Doubt must be resisted.Fear must be defeated. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions. – John E Sarno
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- He was a silent type, very nervy of people: shy, introverted, nobody would believe he could scream so loud-¦well he did drink a bottle of bleach! – Stephen Richards