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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

  Alice Munro

  House, Stories, World

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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• When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

  Huston Smith

  Sleep, Important, States

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• When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.

  Henri Bergson

  Memories, Views, Space

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Change, Time

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• Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Hate, Unnecessary, Clean

  Song: You Will See, Album: Beautiful Intentions, 2005

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• If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Principles, Purpose, Matter

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• Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

  John Updike

  Yesterday, Each Day, Afraid Of Death

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.221, Random House

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• Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?

  Margaret Atwood

  Artist, Mad, People

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Book, Character, Successful

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• Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Writing, Self, Black

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

  Joseph Hume

  Law, Twelve, Events

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• My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

  Heather Morris

  Dad, Years, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.

  Pat Conroy

  Children, Thinking, Quality

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Water Is Wide: A Memoir”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Live Life, Profound, Feelings

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as the character of the people who live here will not be altered by this tragedy.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Character, Essence

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• Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Inspiration, Reality

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• In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

  George Lucas

  Loss, Would Be, Our Society

  "George Lucas offers a compelling argument against George Lucas" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. September 01, 2011.

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• The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

  Nick Nolte

  Sweet, Wind, Mexican

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• Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

  Ovid

  Death, Here And There, Spirit

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• We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We need just one who will start climbing the rugged mountain cliffs in the direction of his King. We need just one to hear the call of the wild, to charge the fields of Bannockburn and fight for something that really matters. I appeal to you, as a young man, to consider that throughout history, it has often been when one young man stood up to be counted that the course of a nation was forever altered.

  Eric Ludy

  Kings, Fighting, Men

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• Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

  Robert Bork

  Country, Law, Justice

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• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

  Martin Gardner

  Queens, Kings, Teaching

  "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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• By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Stories, Fifty

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• To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Real, Writing, Character

  Louis Auchincloss (1979). “Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches”, Houghton Mifflin

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• For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

  Audre Lorde

  Expectations, House, Tools

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