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Ben Okri quote: "It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...]..."
It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous. Ben Okri
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a..."
What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are. Kurt Vonnegut
That's why your lot in life isn't fate. I don't have any say in much of my life, but I make whatever choices I can make in my own rational best interest. It's my choice to fix those stairs and make the place I live a little better instead of whining and waiting and hoping for someone else to do something for me. I have pride that I know how to do that for myself. Terry Goodkind
She's not talking now," muttered the Rani's aunt, wagging one stick-like finger. "That tiger is throwing his voice."Can no-one get that woman to stop talking?" asked the Rajah of the room."Easier to stop 'em than start 'em," said the tiger, and he dealt with the matter. Neil Gaiman
Yes, I'm adopted. My folks were not blessed. With me in the usual way. But they picked me, They chose me. From all the rest, Which is lots more than most kids can say. Shel Silverstein
All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it would consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries. Italo Calvino
I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face." The Royal Way (1935) Andre Malraux
John Steinbeck quote: "I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even..."
I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all. John Steinbeck
Jim Morrison quote: "the time to hesitate is throughno time to wallowin the mire...."
the time to hesitate is throughno time to wallowin the mire. Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre Jim Morrison
I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please. Terry Goodkind
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Enjoy when you can, and endure what you must."
Enjoy when you can, and endure what you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chris Colfer quote: "Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you."
Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you. Chris Colfer
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe Carl Sagan
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination. George Sand
I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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