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Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or if not exactly love, you fall into something you can't see out of. 'I can't shoot a machine gun' becomes 'Hey, this hardly has any kick-back! Augusten Burroughs
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more..."
War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown? Virginia Woolf
In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills. Dean Koontz
Neil Gaiman quote: "I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way..."
I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? Neil Gaiman
I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not... W. Somerset Maugham
John Adams quote: "We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it."
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. John Adams
I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping. Steven Wright
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. Herman J. Mankiewicz
Underneath my stiffened gown. Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown. So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water. Seems the stroking of a dear. Hand upon her. Amy Lowell
To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. Anyone murdered by brigands, whose throat is cut at night in a wood, or something of that sort, must surely hope to escape till the very last minute. There have been instances when a man has still hoped for escape, running or begging for mercy after his throat was cut. But in the other case all that last hope, which makes dying ten times... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rene Daumal quote: "Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking..."
Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks. Rene Daumal
... maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don'twant to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones. Charles Bukowski
Three can eat as cheaply as two, the well-known arithmetic of resignation in any family where a child is expected, now one can say with even greater authority, Ten million can eat as cheaply as five, and with a quiet smile, A nation is nothing but a great big family. Jose Saramago

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