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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be..."
My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here. Barbara Kingsolver
Joseph Goebbels quote: "Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a..."
Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal. Joseph Goebbels
Death looms large I guess because it should. It’s the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It’s the only thing we’ve really got, and I don’t mean to sound bleak about this, but it’s a unifying factor amongst us all. Nick Cave
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. J. D. Salinger
David Lynch quote: "We think we understand the rules when we become adults but..."
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. David Lynch
There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.) Harvey Pekar
Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a gentleman lies deep in the heart of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type. Owen Wister
Warren Ellis quote: "Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend."
Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend. Warren Ellis
Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again. Neil Gaiman
Cooks were the mitochondria of humanity; they had their own separate DNA, they floated in a cell and powered it but were not really of it. Jonathan Franzen
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create..."
anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past Vladimir Nabokov
I'll want you just as much tomorrow," he murmured, stroking her hair. "And a year from tomorrow. I can promise to wait to ask you again, Shelby, but I can't promise to wait until you're ready to answer. Nora Roberts
We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know. Vladimir Nabokov
To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth... Nikos Kazantzakis
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on. Muhammad Yunus

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