One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's … - Barbara Hambly

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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

Barbara Hambly

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

Arm, Arms, Fear, Oneself, Tucked

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. . . that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

Butterfly, Giving, Hands, Learn, Palm, Thing

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

Answer, Answers, Badly, Enough, Question, Want

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

Book, Retreat, Shine, Shining, Simply

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

Everyone, Fields, Impossible, Making Money, Telling

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Hypothesis, Overwhelming, Temptation, Wizard, Wizards

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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

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We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.

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You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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