"Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience."
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"One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it"
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"Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste."
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"Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it."
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"The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop."
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"As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim."
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"It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success."
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"Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may."
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"There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her."
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"Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us."
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"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
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"He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively."
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"The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body."
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"So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship."
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"What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average."
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"We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual."
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"I think I may have a future as a disembodied head."
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"Let me feel now what sharp distress I may."
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"If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence."
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"[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads."
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