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When afterwards I tried to tell my aunt, she punished me again for my wicked persistence. Then, as I said, everyone was forbidden to listen to me, to hear a word about it. Even my fairy-tale books were taken away from me for a time - because I was too 'imaginative'. Eh! Yes, they did that! My father belonged to the old school.... And my story was driven back upon myself. I whispered it to my pillow - my pillow that was often damp and salt to my whispering lips with childish tears. And I added... H. G. Wells
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and..."
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your..."
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. Rabindranath Tagore
I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed. Robert E. Howard
Dolly Parton quote: "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know..."
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either. Dolly Parton
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one. C. S. Lewis
One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out! Louis L'Amour
He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen. Lewis Carroll
Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.-Stephen Dedalus- James Joyce
Dennis Miller quote: "Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was."
Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was. Dennis Miller
Gloria Vanderbilt quote: "that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think..."
...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny. Gloria Vanderbilt
There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy. Alvin Ailey
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existance is defined in terms of control. Terence McKenna
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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