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Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me. Ayn Rand
Bono quote: "There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant..."
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. Bono
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. Charles Bukowski
I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy."Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be. Thomas Pynchon
T. H. White quote: "I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.~ Merlyn"
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.~ Merlyn T. H. White
Julia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven knows what misconception of popular science. 'There's something chemical between them' was used to explain the overmastering hate or love of any two people. It was the old concept of determinism in a new form. I do not believe there was anything chemical in my friend. Evelyn Waugh
What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason. Aristotle
If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best. Paulo Coelho
Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed... George Eliot
The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still. Robert Ludlum
Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. As with any risk, you have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of wonderful people for their help and guidance. I thank God every day for giving me the opportunity to parent. Maria Shriver
James Cameron quote: "When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy...."
When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it. James Cameron
Victor Hugo quote: "For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those..."
For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern. Victor Hugo
Dearer to me than the evening star. A Packard car. A Hershey bar. Or a bride in her rich adorning. Dearer than any of these by far. Is to lie in bed in the morning Jean Kerr
....I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which the piles of our psuedo-European culture are embedded, so you had better understand it because no one who does not understand the history and taxonomy of crap will ever come to know the difference between crap and pseudocrap and noncrap.... Louis de Bernieres

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