![As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.](/assets/img/quote-photos/as-far-as-i-can-recall-the-initial-shiver-of-inspiration-for-lolita-was-someho.jpg)
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I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. Carol P. Christ
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Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed. Carlos Mencia
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. Carlos Castaneda
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Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. Lewis
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Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. Carlos Fuentes
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Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew
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We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.
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We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants.
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We want precise land locations, where an animal was shot.
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The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. Alan Keyes
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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We have to get back to the drawing board. I hate being at 0-2, but we'll come back.
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To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
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If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! Don Bluth
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I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature. Charles Baudelaire