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In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas ...
Beside them, a sign read NO DOGS, but a man who worked the ferry patted Abby on
Effective campaigns must communicate the candidates' values and use issues symbolically - as indicative of their moral values and their trustworthiness. Recall
When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good ...
They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete ...
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of ...
We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, ...
With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs ...
The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from ...
Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.
I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
Paradise is a state of mind.
I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years ... This is the only real evil left ...
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ...
True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually ...
People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they ...
Her suspense was terrible.
Maybe there's no such thing as real truth, just lots and lots of different ways of explaining the same thing.
We have lived with violence far too long.
I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
Tonight was the night I was going to get my ass up out of here. I may have wanted to be a girl but I ...
Many a times, doctors, the worshipers of science, are helpless. They know a few technical things and perform their duty diligently. But they wait for ...
Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.
The festive season isn't just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it's also a time to teach your children about those less ...
Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say ...
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and ...
Life is a beautiful dream to be cherished, as long as it lasts.
Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my ...
I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.
A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.
One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
Krystal snorted out a laugh. "Hit on me? Freddy, Bubba is gay. Like really gay. Gayer than a unicorn butt-fucking a rainbow. You're the one ...
With facts, fear grows dim
When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.
Claire happy to no longer expect ... but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life.
Yes, guilty! And then it was the same on each point:
A young man who asks too much about clothing will find himself the subject of unflattering rumors.
I like to make movies about how people actually live, realistically.
To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.
Morrow [ ... ] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the ...
As writers we need to crack open language.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says ...
When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's ...
I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
For the lesson was clear-one did not poke around at night, not unless one wanted to see ghosts.
I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.
If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.
I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw ...
Let's go," I said."Go where?""On Lori's date with Parker."Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading."I wasn't aware it was ...
I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're ...
I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.
Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it ... There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A ...
My blood ran cold. Twenty yards away a hooded figure was crouching behind the oak tree, flashing a pinpoint light into the office where Walter ...
I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a ...
The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an ...
One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm ...
Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.
The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and ...
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning ...
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect ...
I can't imagine ever loving another woman the way that I love you.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that we ...
For this relief, much thanks
For me, gratitude only brings positivity. As simplified as it sounds, I think that is key.
Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.
Plato was right, but not quite right.
It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are ...
I had melancholy thoughts...a strangeness in my mind,A feeling that I was not for that hour,Nor for that place.
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
Why do you always want the things that you cannot have...
Be brave, be victorious
Ray Wilkins' day will come one night
Ugh, why don't all men pierce their bloody dicks? I think it could bring about world peace. Like, seriously. Could you imagine all the satisfied, ...
O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.
I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for "Best Special Effects."
Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant.
You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.
There are anthropogenic state risks at the existential level as well: the longer we live in an internationally anarchic system, the greater the cumulative chance ...
It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.
These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration ...
He found her utterly fascinating, a nameless, homeless, naked vampire, sleeping away the day in his bed, wanted by state and federal police.
Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results ...
We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.
What is time for if not to bless?
Workers of the world unite. It's not just a slogan anymore.
PS 46 was just up the block, on
Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.
Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.
Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of ...
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
Thank you for making everything beautiful just by being. -Gabriel