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Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did. Pete Hamill
Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving. Arundhati Roy
Mark Twain quote: "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a..."
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Mark Twain
Julia Cameron quote: "Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do..."
Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead. Julia Cameron
Ned Land: I wouldn't be surprised if they were cannibals; but I can assure you they won't eat me without my having something to say about it! Conseil: Keep calm, Ned, keep calm. You're getting angry before there is any need to. We're not in the pot yet! Jules Verne
James Joyce quote: "There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had..."
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. James Joyce
Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before." Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170 Diana Wynne Jones
Well . . . I mean . . .” Her eyebrows lifted and she looked at him slyly. “You want to ask me about the fan again?” He grinned. She'd never let him live that down. Nicholas Sparks
Esther Forbes quote: "If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it."
If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it. Esther Forbes
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released. Natalie Goldberg
If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3) Sallust
We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells. Flannery O'Connor
It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered away from the inn in a daze and ended up on the sea cliffs, staring out into the darkness with sound of the roaring water below me. The thundering of the ocean was like a bitter lament. I seemed to see beneath everything a layering of cruelty I have never known was there. The howling of the wind and shaking of the trees seemed to mock me. Could it really be that the... Arthur Golden

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