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Bette Davis quote: "You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for..."
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get. Bette Davis
LAVINIA: Oh Edward! The point is, that since I've been away I see that I've taken you much too seriously. And now I can see how absurd you are. EDWARD: That is a very serious conclusion to have arrived at in...how many?...thirty-two hours. T. S. Eliot
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a... Bill Bryson
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. Kurt Vonnegut
Philip Roth quote: "He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it..."
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. Philip Roth
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement."
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead. Thomas Merton
Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."I see nobody on the road." said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too! Lewis Carroll
Joseph Joubert quote: "We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only..."
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own Joseph Joubert
C. S. Lewis quote: "The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and..."
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus. C. S. Lewis
...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts... Kathy Acker
Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us. Nikos Kazantzakis
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose,... Richard P. Feynman
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons..."
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. H. P. Lovecraft

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