Alan McCluskey Quotes

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Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

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#2. Dream of me, my love, and I'll be with you all night.

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#3. He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

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#4. When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then you have more moral fiber than most adults. Free will is one of the pillars of being human.

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#5. Anger is unpleasant, for all concerned," John said. "We'd prefer not to have anything to do with it, but it is the expression of a force that insists on being heard and we need to heed what it is trying to say.

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#6. But if you stray too far on the side of distance and strictness, you end up hard and unapproachable. So you need to be open to unexpected things and you need to be accessible to those people who are honest and forthright with you, especially if they take risks trying to do what their heart dictates.

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#7. Dead! He had known. Of course he had known.

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#8. Despair is a ugly thing when it refuses hope.

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#9. The boy wanted to be accepted as he was, to be reassured that he was not a monster, to be loved by someone, not as the result of force or desire, but through shared feelings and closeness.

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#10. Please forgive me. I couldn't always follow you in your wild escapades, just like I can't follow you now. But then as now, my thoughts and heart go with you. I hope that you finally meet the love of your life in Paradise. Try not to tease the angels.

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#11. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

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#12. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.

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#13. Peter couldn't help remembering the stirring moment when he and Kate had sung back into life the chorus of health and well-being in Andrew's body; the base chord that hummed in all living beings, distinct to each person but closely linked together.

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#14. It was a moonless night, although the cloudless sky was ablaze with stars. Whatever the circumstances, she always found the starlit night sky profoundly moving.

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#15. Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

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#16. Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

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#17. A stylized sun and moon, joined by a horizontal bar, floated above a country divided in two by a river that snaked between them.

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#18. May those that are excluded because they are different find a home such as this in which they are accepted and appreciated as they really are." "Amen," they chorused.

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