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    Confucius
    “The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”
    ― Confucius
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    John Updike
    “it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”
    ― John Updike, Marry Me: A Romance
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    John Updike
    “The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly, and the placement of our heating ducts and storage space borders on the irresponsible. I have great trouble, myself, in imagining the floor plans of split-level homes, though I feel they are important sites of the American condition.”
    ― John Updike, Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
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    John Updike
    “On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: birds, pictures, punctuations, sentence, visual, visualization, wire, words
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    John Updike
    “Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.”
    ― John Updike, Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
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    John Updike
    “Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: love-of-books, reading
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    John Updike
    “This life is the one to be lived now, that much is crystal-clear. What did Thoreau supposedly say—‘One world at a time’?”
    ― John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel
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    John Updike
    “And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?”
    ― John Updike, Toward the End of Time
    tags: curiosity, identity, life-philosophy, philosophy, science
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    Graham Greene
    “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
    ― Graham Greene
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    John Irving
    “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
    ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
    tags: life
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    John Irving
    “They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
    tags: awkard, final, leaving, regret
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    John Irving
    “You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
    tags: beginnings-and-endings
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    John Irving
    “Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
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    John Irving
    “...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.”
    ― John Irving, The World According to Garp
    tags: writing-life
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    Alan M. Dershowitz
    “Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
    ― Alan Dershowitz
    tags: constitution, freedom, gun-rights, guns, justice, politics, second-amendment
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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright
    tags: second-amendment, writers
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    Ann Coulter
    “Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.”
    ― Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
    tags: humor, politics, second-amendment
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    James Madison
    “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
    ― James Madison, U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire)
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
    ― Alexander Hamilton
    tags: second-amendment
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    Tiffany Madison
    “Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.”
    ― Tiffany Madison
    tags: founding-fathers, freedom, government-corruption, gun-control, gun-laws, gun-rights, guns, liberty, politics, politics-of-the-united-states, resistance, second-amendment, self-defense, tyranny
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    Ted Nugent
    “When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”
    ― Ted Nugent
    tags: second-amendment
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    “GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE.”
    ― Aaron B. Powell, Guns
    tags: gun-control, second-amendment, violence
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    “We need to take a harder look at what’s really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.”
    ― Aaron B. Powell, Guns
    tags: bullying, gun-control, second-amendment, teen-violence
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    “I am a 5'1 petite female. My pistol is my equalizer.”
    ― Dr. Gina Loudon Author of Ladies and Gentlemen and What Women Really Want.
    tags: dr-gina-loudon, equal-rights, gina-loudon, guns, ladies-and-gentlemen, second-amendment, what-women-really-want, wife-swap
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: criticism, humor, writing
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    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    ― Annie Proulx
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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