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“The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.”

Trying Looks Feelings Accepting Individuality Patterns Thumbprints

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

“I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.”

Ifs Left Thick Clay Thumbprints

Author:Hugh Elliot

“The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.”

Way Needs Individual Journey Guides Inner Journey Thumbprints

Book:The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century

Source: The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century

“I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.”

Individual Petite Thumbprints

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“I think everybody is different. We are trying to be ourselves, and other people are trying to be themselves. We all share commonalities with each other, but all of us have different thumbprints. We all have our own unique things.”

People Thinking Trying Different Share Unique Commonality Unique Things Thumbprints

Author:Michael Gungor

“One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.”

“Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

Ifs World Years Made Said Dream Bigs Eye Hate Stuff Brain Wonder Ten I Hate Paid Fantastic Touched Seconds Factories Grandfather Status Quo Skulls Sculptors Ridges Thumbprints

Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

Knows Sometimes Black Misery Gentle Thumbprints

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Where's Magnus?" he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ear, about the size of a thumbprint. "Alec!" Magnus came skidding into the living room and blew a kiss to his boyfriend across the room. Having discarded his slippers, he was barefoot now. His cat's eyes shone as he looked at Alec.”

Said Eye Rooms Saws Kissing Cat Ears Size Kitchen Living Room Bruises Discarded Barefoot Slippers Thumbprints

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”

World Inspirational Helping Hands Millions Pieces Graduation Clay Inspirational Graduation Funny Commencement Great Graduation College Graduation Cool Graduation Thumbprints

Author:John Updike

“If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.”

Ifs Different Security Stealing Thumbs Passwords Thumbprints

Author:Bruce Schneier

“A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.”

Writing Persons Ideas Whole Character Artist Passion Voice Lines Style Wit Rhythm Strokes Brushes Whole Person Writing Voice Thumbprints Writer's Voice

Author:Patricia Lee Gauch

“I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out something that is indelibly you and authentic - like your thumbprint. It's going to have your style because there is no one like you.”

Ifs Believe Style Mines Like You Photography Roots Photographer Territory Very Strong Thumbprints

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.”

People World Way Should Trying Persons Two Fit Unique Solutions Concepts Sentences Maps Dealing With People Thumbprints

Author:Milton H. Erickson

“An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature.”

“I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.”

Believe Soul Choices I Believe Causes Conscious Killers Erase Theological Serials Serial Killer Thumbprints

Author:James Lee Burke