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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

  Mao Zedong

  Life, Weed, Stars

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Sorry, Pain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.70, 谷月社

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• External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

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  Ram Dass

  Silence

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.189, Harmony

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• What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Warrior, Thinking, Doors

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• Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

  Michael Harner

  Reality, Path, Steps

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• The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.

  Alice Sebold

  Dream, Air, Cities

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you." "Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

  Claudia Gray

  Hands, Done, My Friends

  Claudia Gray (2011). “Afterlife”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Hey, pretty thing," he said. "What's in the bag?" "Holy water," said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he'd been conjured up like a genie. A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. "Oooh, a Shadowhunter," said the vampire. "Scary." With a wink he melted back into the crowd. "Vampires are such prima donnas," Magnus sighed from the doorway. "Honestly, I don't know why I have these parties." "Because of your cat," Clary reminded him. Magnus perked up. "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcastic, Attitude, Party

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• Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.

  Amit Ray

  Unity, Blame, Consciousness

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.45, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

  Raymond Chandler

  Doors, Hands, Pie

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Stories and Early Novels”

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• Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach
  the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to
  the hidden, spiritual things of life.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Ancient, Approach

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• Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Wall, Book, World

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Smell, World

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• Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

  James Scott Bell

  Home, Character, Thinking

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• We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

  Geneen Roth

  Understanding, Our Lives

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• My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.

  Richard Garriott

  Philosophy, Successful, Unique

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• One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

  Frances Mayes

  Ignorance, Blue, Giving

  "Frances Mayes travels the globe (sort of), not forgetting about Italy" by Jeanne Cooper, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2006.

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• Work is an antidote for anxiety, and ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Whatever our circumstances in life, my dear brethren, let us do the best we can and cultivate a reputation for excellence in all that we do. Let us set our minds and bodies to the glorious opportunity for work that each new day presents.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Opportunity, New Day, Anxiety

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• The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

  Gregory Maguire

  Real, Dragons, Evil

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• (Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. ‘Member me? (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Guy, Sound, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.240, Macmillan

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• Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll see you later Roza." "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me." Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Practice, Roza

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.171, Penguin

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• It doesn't hurt." "But my eyes do," said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn't heard him; closing the door behind him, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon's shirt down. "Molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, Iz?" he asked. "I'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the Accords." "I'm just showing him where he got stabbed," Isabelle protested, but she scooted back to her chair with a certain amount of haste.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Eye, Fighting

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.859, Simon and Schuster

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• Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Fall, Eye, Cracks

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