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Mahalia Jackson quote: "Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what..."

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

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This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember. This... Alice Munro
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From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned. Cormac McCarthy
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me. Nicholas Sparks
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Bertrand Russell
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. Benjamin Franklin
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Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction. Francis Picabia
We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good. Sterling Marlin
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