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It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Christopher Hitchens quote: "My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where..."
My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me. Christopher Hitchens
Paulo Coelho quote: "I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never..."
I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me. Paulo Coelho
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet! James Clavell
...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation of something from which we are no longer expecting any surprise. Italo Calvino
It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'"Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'"Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete. Joseph Heller
Stephen King quote: "That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human..."
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. Stephen King
And that nice little balcony is yours? How cool it looks up there!” He paused a moment. “Come up and see,” he suggested. “I can give you a cup of tea in no time—and you won’t meet any bores.” Her colour deepened—she still had the art of blushing at the right time—but she took the suggestion as lightly as it was made. “Why not? It’s too tempting—I’ll take the risk,” she declared. “Oh, I’m not dangerous,” he said in the same key. In truth, he had never liked her as well as at that moment. He... Edith Wharton
Francis Ford Coppola quote: "I don't see any method at all...Sir"
I don't see any method at all...Sir Francis Ford Coppola
This is what you should do:Love the earth and sun and animals,Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,Stand up for the stupid and crazy,Devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants,Argue not concerning God,Have patience and indulgence toward the people...Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,Dismiss what insults your very soul,And your flesh shall become a great poem. Walt Whitman
Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to confer upon others not just consideration but esteem; it's to bathe others in a commodity best described by noted speller Aretha Franklin. Henry Alford
A wave of embarrassment washed over him, and he checked to see if any of his posters had noticed. They stayed put, emotionless and impartial. Ariel Dorfman
Pick an apocalypse, any apocalypse. A sea of black oil and dead things. No wind. No light. Nothing stirring, not even an ant, a spider. A silent universe. Such is the end of the flicker of time, the brief hot fuse of events and ideas set off, accidentally, and snuffed out, accidentally, by man. Not a real ending of course, nor even a beginning. Mere ripple in Time's stream. John Gardner
Abraham Lincoln quote: "I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything..."
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. Abraham Lincoln
And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to the things and people that have appeared to us beautiful and mysterious from a distance to be able to satisfy ourselves that they have neither mystery nor beauty. Marcel Proust

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