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Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it. P. D. James
Homer quote: "Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic,..."
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile Homer
Alice Walker quote: "In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in..."
In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful. Alice Walker
Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended. Vladimir Nabokov
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society? things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. E. B. White
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Mahatma Gandhi
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw than breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils? Ian Fleming
You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not? Amy Tan
Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot... A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound. When I wound a man, though I but graze his skin, it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low. His wife will tear her cheeks out for grief and his children will be fatherless: there he will rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him. Homer
I've always wanted to be an expert on tadpoles; I've always fancied being a tadpole expert. It's a wonderful life if you become an experty tadpoleous, as they are known in the trade. You get invited out to all the smart parties and social gatherings. When smart people are making out their lists for the dinner parties, they say, 'Now, who can we have to make up the ten? A tadpole expert would be very nice. He could sit next to Lady Sonia. Peter Cook
Carol Shields quote: "This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting..."
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
C. S. Lewis quote: "Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?"
Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met? C. S. Lewis
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it... Jane Austen
A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. "Don't be scared," I tell those fishes. "I am saving you from drowning." Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead... Amy Tan
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. Doris Lessing

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