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William Shakespeare quote: "In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called..."
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind. William Shakespeare
I would ask my teacher a question," Yehonala said."Ask," Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side."When may I paint a picture of my own?" Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. "When I can no longer command you. Pearl S. Buck
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. Chinua Achebe
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization. Ariel Durant
I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and the end eventually. I wake up. The terrible dreams are the good dreams. In my terrible dreams, everything is fine. I am still with the company. I still look like me. None of the last five years ever happened. Sometimes I'm married. Once I even had kids. I even knew their names. Everything's wonderful and normal and fine. And then I wake up, and I'm still me. And I'm still here.... Neil Gaiman
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with... Ivan Goncharov
It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman. Barbara Taylor Bradford
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here. Lewis Carroll
Hillary Clinton quote: "You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To..."
You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To Go only After Your Neighbor. Hillary Clinton
John Steinbeck quote: "You can boast about anything if it's all you have."
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. John Steinbeck
Victor Hugo quote: "Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand..."
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. Victor Hugo
But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. Is it really worth dying for the person you love?"She thinks about it for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, can you live without her? Jodi Picoult
I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. "What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said, "I can’t help it. Leo Tolstoy
When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can. Nicholas Sparks
I miss you so much, I can't stand it. Feels like my heart is breaking in two. My head says no, but my soul demands it. And everything I do, reminds me of you Van Morrison

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