It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. - Terry Pratchett

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Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

Terry Pratchett

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Caves, Humor, Inspirational, Paint, Possible, Sign

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Believe, Errors, Evolving, Natural, Organic, Science

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I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.

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She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.

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Alice Sebold

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

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Sharon Creech

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Ezra Miller

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

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