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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurtourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's neverwaste a minute thinking about people we don't like. Dale Carnegie
Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper... about all they did was persist Thomas Pynchon
Rumi quote: "Nothing I say can explain to you Divine LoveYet all of..."
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine LoveYet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it. Rumi
Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?"Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined. Stephenie Meyer
I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained. John C. Hawkes
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds. Sylvia Plath
Everything is there but there are no parts. Since there are no parts there's no need to replace one thing with another. No need to remove anything or add anything. You don't have to think about difficult things just let yourself soak it all in. For Nakata nothing could be better. Haruki Murakami
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are..."
Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril? Robert Louis Stevenson
It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't-- I know too much about life to have any optimism, because I know even if it's nice, it's going to lead to shit. I know that if you smile at somebody and they smile back, you've just decided that something shitty is going to happen. Louis C. K.
Charles Bukowski quote: "bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do..."
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it Charles Bukowski
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses. Sherwood Anderson
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about. Anton Chekhov
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Animals hear about death for the first time when they die."
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die. Arthur Schopenhauer
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated. Leo Buscaglia

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