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Larry McMurtry quote: "It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times."

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

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Someone knocked me down; I pushed Brinker over a small slope; someone was trying to tackle me from behind. Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. I had forgotten that this existed, this smell which instead of the first robin, or the first bud or leaf, means to me that spring has come. I had always welcomed vitality and energy and warmth radiating from thick and sturdy winter clothes. It made me happy,... John Knowles
You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C. Repeat ad lib.'! Agatha Christie
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. Thomas Arnold
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. B. B. King
James Joyce quote: "He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick..."
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. James Joyce
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Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare Muriel Rukeyser
Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to. Picabo Street
Michael Patrick Jann quote: "Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be..."
Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had. Michael Patrick Jann
But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. Alan Moore
There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. T. Boone Pickens
Joseph Stalin quote: "One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic."
One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? May be, Caleb thinks with a small shock, he isn't the same person he once was, either. Jodi Picoult
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I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. Bill Paxton