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Samuel Butler quote: "Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the..."

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain. Suzanne Collins
(So I heard the boom of my fathr's rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14) Sherman Alexie
Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him. Oscar Wilde
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! R. Lee Ermey
Emily Giffin quote: "When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being..."
When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her. Emily Giffin
Saint Augustine quote: "There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. Saint Augustine
James Hillman quote: "I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god,..."
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. James Hillman
We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well. Jason Biggs
Francesca Annis quote: "I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap."
I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap. Francesca Annis
Paul Kagame quote: "You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to..."
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. Paul Kagame
Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes on a leaden hue, desolation settles in, narcissism gives way to a sad egoism, an absence of generosity. Roland Barthes
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on... Barbara Kingsolver
Stendhal quote: "Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. Stendhal
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men. Herman Hesse
Billie Holiday quote: "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way..."
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. Billie Holiday