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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved. W. P. Kinsella

Starved Bat Chatter Like Gloves Sound Crack Baseball

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. William Gaddis

Ignorance Stupidity Deliberate Cultivation

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms

Death Genius Criticism Dread

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. William Makepeace Thackeray

Love Best Better Doubt No Doubt Able Foolishly Wisely Than To Love

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round. Umberto Eco

Life Attitude Death God Religion Nothing Other Way About Opinion Answer Personal Human In My Opinion Human Beings After Happens Ask Produces Who Many Beings Round Fundamental Origins

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. Adriana Trigiani

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss. Aimee Bender

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. Alan Garner

You Will Nothing Write Make Going Stop

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive? Alan Paton

God Am Forgive Forgives Us Who Who Am I

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? Alan Paton

Man Broke Could He Himself Another Bring

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. Aldous Huxley

Distressing Prophet Wrong Most Proved Happen Next Right Thing

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley

Happiness Somebody Else Boring About Something Curiously

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. Amy Tan

Kindness Desperation Universe Inspiration Arises Perhaps Knows Where Who Muses

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide

You Yourself Faithful Say Would Indispensable Write Written Thus Well Make Another Said Exists Done Which Nowhere

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect. Anne Bronte

Mind Weak Rather Delights Generous Protect Cherish Oppress

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston. Anne Rivers Siddons

You Big Sweet Community Live Think Cities City Charleston Charming Particular Big City Interesting Now Ever

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. Anthony Burgess

You Christ Will Believe Others Potential Unseen

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. Anthony Burgess

Respiration Find He Said Am His Child Artificial Now

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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