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• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  Denise Duhamel

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.

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• Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

  Joan Crawford

  Wise, Party, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His #‎ love and power to save.

  Ulisses Soares

  Jesus, War, Sacrifice

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• Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Temptation, Sin

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• The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

  Mark Hart

  Holiday, Challenges, Demand

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• Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

  David Carson

  Chaos, Reader

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• If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Artist, Color, Play

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• You realize how much fun we did have, with no money at all. We'd stay in peoples' homes in Tangiers. When you're young, you invite yourself.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fun, Home, Tangier

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Death, Believe, Destiny

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.379, Vintage

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• You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crazy, Window, Demon

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Positive Attitude, Trying, Uncertainty

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• I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.

  Colin Farrell

  Home, Long, People

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Views, Sanctuary, Body

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift. "No need," Char and I chimed together. "Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Squirrels, Together, Needs

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• Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, New Beginnings

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings”, p.77, Thomas Nelson

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• I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Sweet, Jealous

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.80, Canongate Books

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• You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Animal, Men

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Destiny, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Reverence invites Revelation

  Boyd K. Packer

  Missionary, Revelations, Reverence

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Distance, Eye

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.437

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• Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

  Albert Camus

  Unhappy, Lovers, Cherish

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.97, Vintage

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• In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sports, Book, Television

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.99, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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