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Need is not quite belief.

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I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

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Even without wars, life is dangerous.

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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

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Death's in the good-bye.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

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No man is happy but by comparison.

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Hope is a very thin diet.

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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

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I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

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And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

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If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

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Multiculturalism is a white people joke.

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Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.

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I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

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