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Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen. Dalton Trumbo
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. Thomas Pynchon
Frank O'Hara quote: "I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die..."
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned. Frank O'Hara
It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before. Jeffrey Eugenides
Erma Bombeck quote: "Children make your life important."
Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck
Abraham Lincoln quote: "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No,..."
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln
Is it not true that what we call “nature” in a cosmic sense has its origin in “a plan of love and truth”? (Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace. 1 January, 2010) Joseph Ratzinger
Irving Babbitt quote: "Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to..."
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn. Irving Babbitt
I'd think, That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. It don't seem like I ever have been me. Ken Kesey
Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge. Theodor Adorno
In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. A. Whitney Brown
Carson McCullers quote: "There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his..."
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form. Carson McCullers
She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Michael Cunningham
Dave Eggers quote: "The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig..."
The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. Dave Eggers
I didn't have to say another word, and I had the sense not to. I had gained Sumner's full attention, and that was all I needed. He looked at me; he really saw me, for perhaps the first time, and Pa thereafter got only his second glances. I won't say that I caught Sumner with three words, but they gave me a start. To keep up his image of the bright and thoughtful woman he had idealized for himself I had only to let him develop his own conception. I wouldn't have to do a thing until we get... Louis Auchincloss