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Bob Dylan quote: "Everything that I'm saying. You can say it just as good"
Everything that I'm saying. You can say it just as good Bob Dylan
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar."
Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar. Ernest Hemingway
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. . . . Swami Vivekananda
Judy Blume quote: "I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life."
I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life. Judy Blume
music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to. Paulo Coelho
Patrick Marber quote: "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her..."
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do. Patrick Marber
What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better. Umberto Eco
Truman Capote quote: "there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All..."
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. Truman Capote
Benjamin Franklin quote: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it"
A republic, madam, if you can keep it Benjamin Franklin
Neil Gaiman quote: "One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there,..."
One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it. Neil Gaiman
Emily Giffin quote: "But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact,..."
But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. Emily Giffin
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled. Salman Rushdie
People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by forceis a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this questionis presented by life itself to all men, and calls for some answerfrom every thinking man. Ever since Christianity has beenoutwardly professed, this question is for men in their social lifelike the question which presents itself to a traveler when theroad on which he has been journeying divides into two branches. He must go on and he cannot say: I will not think... Leo Tolstoy
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means. Mahatma Gandhi
On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladie? straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life... Annie Dillard

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