"Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does."
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"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
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"Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely."
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"It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess."
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"You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally."
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"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
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"Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not."
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"Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?"
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"Learning many things does not teach understanding"
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"The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course."
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"The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk."
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"What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!"
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"God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does."
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"The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction."
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"I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself."
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"The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again."
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"The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime."
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"Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust."
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"Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK."
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"As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people."
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