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It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle. Nick Hornby
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall. Robert Louis Stevenson
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. Homer
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows..."
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever. Evelyn Waugh
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire! Gaston Bachelard
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter. Lewis Thomas
Mervyn Peake quote: "It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but..."
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible Mervyn Peake
Erich Maria Remarque quote: "No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier..."
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck. Erich Maria Remarque
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. Benjamin Franklin
They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady Emily Dickinson
You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly. Doug Coupland
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say..."
I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. Frances Hodgson Burnett
I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. (moby dick chap 26 p112) Herman Melville
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. Steven Weinberg
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. Cormac McCarthy

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