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John Irving quote: "Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run..."
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you John Irving
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even..."
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this? Soren Kierkegaard
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's..."
Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces L. M. Montgomery
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another? Terry Tempest Williams
Elizabeth Hardwick quote: "You have grown a little beard, I said. You see it is not true..."
You have grown a little beard, I said. You see it is not true that one can't change. Elizabeth Hardwick
And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills. Lord Dunsany
There comes a time when every one of our people understands that a Jew can never be attached to a place. The rules always change, and we always lose. People will always despise us, and we must be ready to fly away. We cannot have roots in the earth of any country, only in the garden that we carry inside us. Alice Hoffman
It was as Nazruddin had said, when I asked him about visas and he had said that bank notes were better. 'You can always get into those places. What is hard is to get out. That is a private fight. Everybody has to find his own way. V. S. Naipaul
You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are. Barbara Kingsolver
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Friends do everything they can to protect each other."--Polly"
Friends do everything they can to protect each other."--Polly Madeleine L'Engle
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to. Erich Maria Remarque
C. S. Lewis quote: "No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is..."
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. C. S. Lewis
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same Merle Shain
How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? ...if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality... Robert Adams

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