Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as … - Terry McMillan

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Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

Terry McMillan

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Home, House, People, Raised, Representative

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I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Discovered, Household, Like, Like You, Men, Pet

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

Character, Easy, Happens, Philosophy, Reproduction, Thinking

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

Exist, Kids, Mother, Say, Writing

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Behind Your Back, Behinds, Business, Firsts, Friends, Usually

My stories are character driven.

Character, Driven, Stories

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Manly Hall

Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share one with another such experiences as may have common value. We desire, therefore, not to convert or convince, but to invite such a sharing with the sincere hope that some mutual good will be accomplished.

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Hannah Arendt

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

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Nhat Hanh

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

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David Johansen

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

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Omar Khayyam

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

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