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• Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Heart, Family Love, Journey

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• It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

  Susan Sontag

  Memories, Past, Safe

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• Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

  Shane Osborn

  Sleep, Firsts, Deprived

  "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2001.

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• Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

  Dean Koontz

  Judging, Wish, Experts

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.147, Bantam

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• That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Dream, Art, Block

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• When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Long, Trying

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• We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Nature, Leaving

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• After Chen Zhen, I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

  Andrew Lau

  Emotional, Stories, Wanted

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• Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Beautiful, Flower, Roots

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• I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always having people in and out of my house. It's changed the way I feel as a citizen of the world. And it's really important to me to feel good about what I'm working on, to justify the number of hours I'd have to be away from him.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Son, Motherhood, Thinking

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• [Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there.

  John Kasich

  Wall, People, Want

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since I've had Kai than in any other period in my life...It's such an incredible catalyst for growth. I found myself questioning absolutely everything: how I spend my time, how I speak, what kind of projects I work on, how I look at the world.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mean, Motherhood, Thinking

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• Touching people is very rewarding to me.

  Della Reese

  People

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• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  Emily Blunt

  Self, People, Way

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• But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

  Bel Kaufman

  Commitment, Thinking, Nerves

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• Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Stories, Wonder

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• Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Song, Horse, Home

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• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  Walter Raleigh

  Vanity, Religion, Firsts

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.563

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• Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Caps, Squires

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• I am just blessed they are such great, really wonderful kids.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Blessed, Kids, Motherhood

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• Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

  John D. MacDonald

  Journey, Animal, People

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• Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.

  Denise Levertov

  Butterfly, Paper, Dry

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

  Christa McAuliffe

  Dream, Teacher, Teaching

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• The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Community, Done

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• I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Women, Feet

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