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• By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.

  Chris Baines

  Home, Heart, Past

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• Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by holding for laughter and by letting them know early on what they're in for. In the first few moments, the audience is gathering information, looking at the scenery and costumes. Create a comic moment as soon as you can.

  James Carver

  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Doors, Public Opinion

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• What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to his heart’s best brother—” “Oh, by the Angel, Will, do be quiet,” said Charlotte, standing up. “I must go and write a letter to Aloysius Starkweather that drips remorse and pleading. I don’t need you distracting me.” And, gathering up her skirts, she hurried from the room. “No appreciation for the arts,” Will murmured, setting his teacup down.

  Cassandra Clare

  Appreciation, Brother, Art

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Grandfather, Plies

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.19, Penguin

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• Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Drawing, Weakness

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.106, Ravenio Books

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• Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

  Jeaniene Frost

  School, People, Dancing

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• His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Christian, Men, Race

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.261, Scholastic UK

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• I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

  Michelle Sagara

  Hate, Thinking, Killing Each Other

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.1080, MIRA

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• Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Envy, Doe, May

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.26, Prometheus Books

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• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Pain, Believe, Grief

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

  Alain de Botton

  Jobs, Sunday, Personality

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• As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Morning, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016

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• Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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• Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

  Rumi

  Half, Majesty, Humans

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• The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thoughtful, Air, Magic

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.242, A&C Black

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• But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Kindness, Flower

  'Love and Age' (1860)

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Being Lonely

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• Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.

  William J. Clinton

  Feet, Age, World

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.112, Best Books on

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• Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

  Steve Kimock

  Vibes, Youth, Elders

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• The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

  Jonathan Raban

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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• When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Data

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

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• At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.

  Louise Erdrich

  Memories, Fall, Light

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.31, Odyssey Editions

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• My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wool, My Thoughts, Ran

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Together, Obsession

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