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Yossi Beilin

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CORY DOCTOROW But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
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JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The...
STEPHEN KING The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
LOIS LOWRY Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
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SHEL SILVERSTEIN What's Your Road, Man?
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TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
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KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an...
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SAEB EREKAT A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.
JOHN GREEN When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?”
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CHARLES F. GLASSMAN How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
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J.I. PACKER Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
ROBERT BRAULT Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
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DIANE HAMMOND Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu...
JODI PICOULT It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you rea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put ...
TUPAC SHAKUR You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUS I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
MARK TWAIN Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In your dreams, you will find in the ocean of your memory that people from the past will come and vi...
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GUNDO MULAUDZI If you are not 15 minutes early, then you are late.
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RAINER MARIA RILKE Explain it to me."
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SARAH DESSEN Life is a gift...
Life is a test...
Life is temporary assignment....
RICK WARREN Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-A...
JOHN GREEN Move on fast, kiss my a*s
KAYLA HANSELL We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.
KEN POIROT When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and oppor...
GERMANY KENT You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the...
C.S. LEWIS Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
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ILONA ANDREWS Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.
JACOB M. APPEL Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
MELINA MARCHETTA ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros huggin...
LAURIE PEREZ Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
ELAINE DUNDY Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.
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"I know t...
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MYRA YADAV, MOVE ON Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Remember what you always told me.”

“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?
KEN POIROT Be like a ram-ventilator shark! Always keep going forward or else you'll drown!
ADNAN BAHATTI Press Onward! We all make mistakes. It's time we stop dwelling on them and move forward. Ask for for...
JASON VERSEY Only you can stand between your self and happiness. You only start moving on when you decide to. And...
ASSYA MOUSSAID It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
DAN BROWN It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
DR. SEUSS It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.
CAMERON CONAWAY In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is pe...
WAYNE MULLER To the other person, who looks at me from the outside, I seem an object, a thing; my subjectivity wi...
WILLIAM BARRETT If you do not actually know the story, then do not pretend you can tell it.
B. THOMAS HARWOOD Sometimes the only way to leave is out the front door
DELISA J. BRACY If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16)
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