Because Quotes (page 10)

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• moments
• time
• single

Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure! Charles Dickens

• lies
• learning
• wisdom

...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess Jack Kerouac

• light
• fire
• crazy

Because that’s really something I can’t stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy. David Sedaris

• children
• experience
• feeling

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's... Orson Scott Card

• worst
• putting
• seen

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. Anne Lamott

• to live
• world
• hell

Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell. Milan Kundera

• suits
• joy
• personal

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive... Milan Kundera

• death
• kindness
• kindly

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. Emily Dickinson

• enough
• enough is enough
• desiring

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"[Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'tre.] Arthur Conan Doyle

• marriage
• space
• empty

Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it. Terry McMillan

• friends
• friend
• enemy

Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends... unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies... assuming they're sexy. Chuck Klosterman

• manly
• destiny
• love

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny Paulo Coelho

• deep
• bird
• preserving

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds. E. L. Konigsburg

• men
• believe
• entirety

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us... Rene Descartes

• fear
• identify
• liking

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence. John Knowles