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• The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Important

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.760, The Floating Press

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• Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Important, Dies

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• Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

  Kaye Gibbons

  Important, World, Cry

  Kaye Gibbons (2012). “Ellen Foster”, p.115, Algonquin Books

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• The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, People, Important

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• Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Pigs, Talking

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• The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Important, Remember

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “The Rince Cycle”, p.84, Oberon Books

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• The really important thing is not to reject anything.

  Susan Sontag

  Important, Rejects

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Leaving

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• The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Everyday, Important

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• You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Inspirational, Twilight, Learning

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Voice, Focus

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• If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

  Deb Caletti

  Letting Go, People, Important

  "The Six Rules of Maybe". Book by Deb Caletti, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Important, Needs, Attention

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Father, Thinking, Important

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.584, Xist Publishing

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• I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Important

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• As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

  Chaim Potok

  Life, Silly, Expression

  Chaim Potok (2000). “The chosen with related readings”

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• Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has become a part of yourself. That, too, is a growing process. Everything is a growing process. And in between, emotions and sensations that strike you like lightning. But still the most important thing is the organic process of growing.

  Etty Hillesum

  Men, People, Important

  Etty Hillesum (1983). “An interrupted life: the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, Lester & Orpen Dennys

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• The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Important, Persons, Knows

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

  Richard Ford

  Cutting, Two, People

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• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Important, Quests, Findings

  "Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold about writing the Vorkosigan Saga". Interview with Jo Walton, www.tor.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Talking, Important, Particular

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Mean, Important

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