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Cormac McCarthy quote: "I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about..."
I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all. Cormac McCarthy
One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them. Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we..."
It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it. Stephen King
Death looms large I guess because it should. It’s the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It’s the only thing we’ve really got, and I don’t mean to sound bleak about this, but it’s a unifying factor amongst us all. Nick Cave
But I was right and the real world seemed increasingly nonsensical. Why train for years to do a job you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time? I didn't want to be a lawyer or a bank manager or a goddamn burger flipper. We only get one life and I wanted mine to be exciting... Mark Millar
We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO in charge, seeing me hesitate, explained kindly:'You write "No" in that line'. Auberon Waugh
After all has been said that can be said about the widening influence of ideas, it remains true that they would hardly be such strong agents unless they were taken in a solvent of feeling. The great world-struggle of developing thought is continually foreshadowed in the struggle of the affections, seeking a justification for love and hope. George Eliot
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about the..."
Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about the things that matter. Martin Luther King jr.
The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea from some old science fiction novel Neal Stephenson
John Wilmot quote: "! ” ( ) Before I got married I had six theories about..."
! ” ( ) Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot
Albert Einstein quote: "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough."
I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
But I have no sex feelings about you, and I kind of feel the sleeping-together thing is just odd. So we're not doing the fairy sleep-athon of comfort anymore. Charlaine Harris
Lydia came back to bed. We didn't kiss each other. We weren't going to have sex. I felt weary. I listened to the crickets. I don't know how much time went by. I was almost asleep, not quite, when Lydia suddenly sat straight up in bed. And she screamed. It was a loud scream. "What is it?" I asked. "Be quiet." I waited. Lydia sat there without moving, for what seemed to be about ten minutes. Then she fell back on her pillow. "I saw God," she said, "I just saw God." "Listen, you bitch, you are... Charles Bukowski
No, it was not the money that I valued—what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and fine ladies of Baden talk about me, recount my story, wonder at me, extol my doings, and worship my winnings. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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