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I met a reverend mother once who cried...ah, it's all so sad' - 'What did she cry about?' - 'I don't know, after talking to me, I remember I said some silly thing like "the universe is a woman because it's round" but I think she cried because she was remembering her early days when she had a romance with some soldier who died, at least that's what they say, she was the greatest woman I ever saw, big blue eyes, big smart woman ... you could do that, get out of this awful mess and leave it all... Jack Kerouac
Natalie Goldberg quote: "And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually..."
And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want. Natalie Goldberg
Little bits of things make me do it;? perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago;? the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver. Anthony Trollope
Once again, Jack reached for her hand. It was the only thing he knew how to do. As it would turn out, it was about the only thing he reall knew. John Irving
Jhonen Vasquez quote: "I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing..."
I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it. Jhonen Vasquez
At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you do not understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time. Jane Wagner
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. Oscar Wilde
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves. Terry Prachett
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all..."
She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about. Jeffrey Eugenides
Pablo Picasso quote: "Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive..."
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.(about Guernica). Pablo Picasso
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in... Sidney Poitier
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or..."
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir
Philip Guedalla quote: "Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth..."
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people. Ram Dass
I could understand the moon leaning across a bar on skid rowand asking for a drink, but I couldn't understand anything about myself, I was murdered, I was shit, I was a tentful of dogs, I was poppies mowed down by machine-gun fire. I was a hotshot wasp in a web. I was less and less and still reaching forsomething, and I thought of her corny remarka night or so ago: You have wounded eyes. Charles Bukowski

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