Quotes About Tobsha

#1. Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

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#2. Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

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#3. The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

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#4. Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

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#5. Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship
you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

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#6. Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

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#7. Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

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#8. Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

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#9. The sufferer who keeps looking for God has, in the end, privileged knowledge. ... She passes through a door that only pain will open, and is thus qualified to speak of God in a way that others, whom we generally call more fortunate, cannot speak. (pg. 122)

Ellen F. Davis

#10. The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

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#11. No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.

Allen Ginsberg

#12. Danger is an aphrodisiac.

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#13. Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.

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#14. So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

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#15. Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

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#16. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

#17. You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

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#18. Living is a hazardous profession.

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#19. To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

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#20. People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

E. M. Forster

#21. Trust is won not given.

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#22. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

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#23. A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

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#24. Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential.

Vishwas Chavan

#25. Death strips all men of dignity.

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#26. It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

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#27. We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

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#28. Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

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#29. As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

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#30. Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

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#31. with her, almost as though she were an equal. But he was

June Hall McCash

#32. This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

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#33. Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside.

Damon Suede