Douglas Clegg Quotes

#1. Pain is a ritual we all must endure." 2

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#2. Words could kill, sometimes, he thought then. Words could change everything. Lourdes

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#3. Besides, back to the subject of you being nuts, all writers are nuts, didn't you know that?

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#4. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way. Happiness only happens for those who cry and those who hurt, for only then can they appreciate the importance of people who touch their lives.

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#5. It was said that Mrs. Campusky's ovaries were like popcorn poppers and the desert heat kept her puffing up with a never-ending pregnancy.

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#6. Of the things that are man's achievements, the greatest is suffering.

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#7. She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.

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#8. Death is a gift, so long as it is nature's hand.

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#9. Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.

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#10. You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day.

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#11. There is more terror in a day of life than there is at the moment of death. It is as if a door has opened to a prison, though you do not believe it is a prison while you exist within it.

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#12. There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings. - Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond

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#13. If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.

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#14. You know we got two lives, sometimes more. I don't mean like reincarnation, I mean like we have our life of innocence and then it rams right into the real life. The life where innocence is just a mirror - looks nice, reflects a lot, but it ain't the real thing. I

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#15. Nothing within the limits of the human imagination and mind is impossible. If it were, we could not imagine it or dream it.

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#16. Everything can work out fine if you just plant your feet on the ground and look straight ahead. Nothing is a tragedy unless you buy it a suit of clothes and give it a free meal.

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#17. Mommy loves me I know. Mommy loves me I know. I know Mommy loves me. I am scared of her. A

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#18. Louis Maistros has an original and dark vision, full of power.

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#19. I understood, then, where his madness had come from: He, too, had experienced the loss of the good and the victory of the evil.

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#20. God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.

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#21. If only ... the two most miserable words in the English language. If only.

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#22. the one of insane geometries, of orange lightning, of fire that rained from trees like leaves falling, of the birds rising from the water their impossibly pure white wings spreading across the burning sky. As

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#23. Family is putting up with each other's shit sometimes I guess.

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#24. Skinless creatures swayed in death throes from thick, silver hooks. Beneath them, on the turquoise mosaic floor, rows of buckets overflowed with clotting blood.

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#25. love can be the most enthralling of demons. 3

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#26. Do you know that when a man becomes old, he begins to remember what he believed in as a child and it all comes back to him?

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#27. What was unspeakable found voice and its bleating froze the air for a moment hacked from the fabric of time as the secret of all stabbed at his ears.

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#28. Frailty and cruelty are our gifts to the world. Who is to say that suffering is not the greatest of all gifts from the gods?

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#29. Death is not the end of things, my sister. It is the beginning of a greater adventure than this small life you cherish can hold. And beyond these shores of death, there are great ships that fly from the golden seas to the skies of pearl.

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#30. He was a golden boy in a world of brass and tin.

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#31. We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there's memory, like a curse. We're such a mixture of frailty and cruelty.

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