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Roberto Bolano quote: "Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign..."
Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. Roberto Bolano
Isak Dinesen quote: "Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart..."
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. Isak Dinesen
Huston Smith quote: "If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we..."
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. Huston Smith
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best. P. D. James
Kurt Vonnegut quote: " lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in..."
... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. Kurt Vonnegut
At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity. Candace Bushnell
It is terrible and unbearable to an artist,' he said, 'to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing his second best.' He said: 'Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost! Isak Dinesen
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.''No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not. J. R. R. Tolkien
If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can. Barbara Kingsolver
I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery. I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression. I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling. I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger. I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all. I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as your bitterness. I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the... Mary Oliver
I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved. Terry Prachett
That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones. Gene Wolfe
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done. Thomas Friedman
I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs - yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I'd proved what I could do clean - how much more could I do if I was doped? David Millar
Doug Coupland quote: "You know what the best thing is about the end of the day?..."
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again. Doug Coupland

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