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“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”

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Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the colour of the sky before it turns black and he will see heaven, and the pictures of all those other girls floating inside his head will blow away like the clouds of the cigarette and he'll see only the girl inside himself and the world will stop.”

World Looks Eye Turns Girl Heaven Black Sky Fingers Lips Clouds Blow Colour Drag Cigarette Floating Other Girl

Author:Maureen Medved

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”

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Author:Meister Eckhart

“Language is the only homeland.”

Language Homeland

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”

Men Decision Mistake Influence Stupid Stupid Mistake

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

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Author:Arthur Golden

“The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.”

Night Foxes

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.”

Happens Interesting Photographer Right Thing Worth It Right Place Wrong Things Something Interesting

Author:Andy Warhol

“In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.”

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Book:Evening Train

Source: Evening Train

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