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Roland Barthes quote: "Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without..."
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. Roland Barthes
Margaret Atwood quote: "Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought..."
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? Margaret Atwood
Henry David Thoreau quote: "A man's riches are based on what he can do without."
A man's riches are based on what he can do without. Henry David Thoreau
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. Rose Macaulay
John Mayer quote: "Love is really nothing but a dream that keeps waking me. For..."
Love is really nothing but a dream that keeps waking me. For all of my trying, we still end up dying, how can it be? John Mayer
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a..."
And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it. Laurell K. Hamilton
FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who can reward or punish at whim. Ayn Rand
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap. Vladimir Nabokov
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long... Margaret Thatcher
Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carl Sagan quote: "Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work..."
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. Carl Sagan
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing..."
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. Laurell K. Hamilton
An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy footprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which you can see the nether sky. Surrounded. I note, by a diffuse tentacled black dampness where some dull dun dead leaves have stuck. Drowned, I should say, before the puddle had shrunk to its present size. Vladimir Nabokov
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes,..."
He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is. Cormac McCarthy
No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up. Charlaine Harris

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