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Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of..."
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. Marcus Tullius Cicero
From the Grapes of Wrath and a woman that would not be moved: "'On'y way you gonna get me to go is whup me.' She moved the jack handle gently again. 'An' I'll shame you, Pa. I won't take no whuppin', cryin' an' a-beggin'. I'll light into you. An' you ain't so sure you can whup me anyways. An' if ya do get me, I swear to God I'll wait till you got your back turned, or you're settin' down, an' I'll knock you belly-up with a bucket. I swear to Holy Jesus' sake I will. John Steinbeck
Andrew Jackson quote: "It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell..."
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. Andrew Jackson
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure. Helen Fielding
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? Memoria hospitis... Blaise Pascal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Doubt can only be removed by action."
Doubt can only be removed by action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker] Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln quote: "You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak"
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak Abraham Lincoln
The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it. Alexander Dumas
J. K. Rowling quote: "She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am,..."
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. J. K. Rowling
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity! Witold Gombrowicz
The key is to pump up your righteous anger and mute your petty resentment. I'll be happy if I can get that balance to fifty-fifty. A. J. Jacobs
I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me," she said. Janet Evanovich
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established that one cannot do. To these two must be joined, third, the nuttiness to believe that other people can be made to care about your opinions and views and be charmed by the way you state them. Incompetence, contempt,... Joseph Epstein
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms. Barbara Kingsolver

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