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“maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside”
-- James Patterson
#Heart #True Beauty #Emotion
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“You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.”
-- James Patterson
#Miracle #Lucky #Pay
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“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
-- James Patterson
#Motivational #Life And Love #Integrity
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“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”
-- James Patterson
#Book #Reading #Years
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“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”
-- James Patterson
#Love #Night #Finding Someone
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“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”
-- James Patterson
#Grief #Loss #Ideas
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“Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.”
-- James Patterson
#Reality #Giving #Mind
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“It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.”
-- James Patterson
#Said #Ready
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“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.”
-- James Patterson
#Self Esteem #Food #Popcorn
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“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”
-- James Patterson
#Reading #Thinking
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“So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie.”
-- James Patterson
#Soul #Cookies #Your Soul
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“Better readers are better thinkers.”
-- James Patterson
#Thinker #Reader
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“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
-- James Patterson
#Life #Unrequited Love #Knowing
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“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”
-- James Patterson
#Stupid #Reading #Book
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“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”
-- James Patterson
#Mother #Cat #Two
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“Yes!†said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.”
-- James Patterson
#Air #Punching #Freak
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“Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.”
-- James Patterson
#Strong #Delight #Teeth
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“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
-- James Patterson
#Smart #Humor #Two
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“I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.”
-- James Patterson
#Fun #Believe #Reading
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“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
-- James Patterson
#Death #Funny Things #Perspective
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“Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.”
-- James Patterson
#Mom #Mother #Brother
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“I never miss a good chance to shut up”
-- James Patterson
#Missing #Chance #Shut Up
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“I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.”
-- James Patterson
#Book #Writing #School
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“In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.”
-- James Patterson
#Book #Writing #Thinking
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“Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.”
-- James Patterson
#Appreciate #Cookies
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“I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.”
-- James Patterson
#Maximum Ride #Wells #Distress
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“Love means never having to be apart”
-- James Patterson
#Mean #Love Means
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“Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.”
-- James Patterson
#Moving #Mountain #Underestimate
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“Don’t ever leave me again,†I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,†he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.†And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.†Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.”
-- James Patterson
#Ice #Wind #Hair
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“Excuse me? I'm alive too.”
-- James Patterson
#Alive #Maximum Ride #Excuse
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