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George R. R. Martin quote: "There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows..."
There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them. George R. R. Martin
I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all along. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack Kerouac quote: "those who're good stay in Heaven, they've been in Heaven from..."
those who're good stay in Heaven, they've been in Heaven from the beginning Jack Kerouac
Emily Giffin quote: "Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the..."
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been. Emily Giffin
Gabrielle: When I was a little girl, on Sunday mornings, if I'd been good, I was allowed to feed the giraffes. Richard: Giraffes! Don't tell me that you had giraffes too? Gabrielle: You mean you... Richard: But of course we did Gabrielle: Oh what fun. Both of us having had giraffes as children. George Axelrod
Margaret Atwood quote: "It must have been then that I began to lose faith in..."
It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth. Margaret Atwood
I thought I was going to see God or reach an epiphany or to levitate or something. But I never did. I prayed so long for that tohappen. I think maybe I didn't surrender myself enough - I think that's the term: surrender. I still wanted to keep a foot in both worlds. And then thispast year I've still been waiting for the same bigcosmic moments, and still nothing's happened... Doug Coupland
When I arrived the News was three years old and Ed Lotterman was on the verge of a breakdown. To hear him talk you would think he'd been sitting at the very cross-corners of the earth, seeing himself as a combination of God, Pulitzer and the Salvation Army. He often swore that if all the people who had worked for the paper in those years could appear at one time before the throne of The Almighty--if they all stood there and recited their histories and their quirks and their crimes and their... Hunter S. Thompson
Why did I accept death? But I will ask, what use was life to me after that revolver had been raised against me by the being I adored? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days. The young man's life is just beginning: the boy's leading-strings are cut, and he has all the novel delights and dignities of freedom. He has no idea of cares yet, or of bad health, or of roguery, or poverty, or to-morrow's disappointment. William Makepeace Thackeray
The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth—to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. Charlotte Bronte
She asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications; and asking over and over she was stirring up her own confusion and she felt irrepressible desires to let herself go and scamper about like a foreigner and allow herself at last an instant of rebellion, that instant yearned for so many times and so many times postponed, putting her resignation aside and shitting on everything once and for all and drawing out of... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Haruki Murakami quote: "Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give..."
Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. Haruki Murakami
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money. P. G. Wodehouse
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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