Canned Quotes (page 801)

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• humanity
• soul
• new

The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them. Pat Conroy

• book
• acceptance
• end

If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this orgasm as much as I can. Paulo Coelho

• life
• missing
• feeling

Condoms ribbed for extrasensitivity. The last thing I need is extrasensitivity. Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. This seems to really miss the point. I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic. Chuck Palahniuk

• nature
• understanding
• begining

That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins. Nadine Gordimer

• alone
• bad
• badly

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you. Bret Easton Ellis

• happy
• people
• ways

That’s the way it is. People can’t cope with happiness. Paulo Coelho

• prayer
• wellness
• done

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able. George R. R. Martin

• past
• embracing
• something better

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better. Nicholas Sparks

• best
• good
• honesty

There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness. Frank Herbert

• mind
• look
• great

Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans! Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas. Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans? Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else. Kim Jong Il: Or else... Trey Parker

• life
• lies
• denies

As for the myths, take anyone's life and deny that most of it is deliberate self-delusion - an aggrandizement - a mixture of lies and truth, of what was wanted and what was had, producing the necessary justification for having been granted life in the first place. I was struck like a match, Lily wrote. I had no option but to burn. You can put a period after that. Lily did. It was the story of her life. Timothy Findley

• best
• end
• farther

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things... Agatha Christie

• real
• tell
• tells

Not real can tell us about real. Margaret Atwood

• victory
• great
• imagination

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. Joseph Conrad

• eating
• personal
• sometimes

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it. Haruki Murakami