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Days Quotes (page 147)

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. William Makepeace Thackeray
L. M. Montgomery quote: "We are both going to pray that we may live together all our..."
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. L. M. Montgomery
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. Joan Didion
Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace. Martin Luther
He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. J. M. Coetzee
People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned. Haruki Murakami
A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost. Leo Tolstoy
My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide. Mia Kirshner
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. Virginia Woolf
Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family. Tom Stoppard
Honore de Balzac quote: "Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in..."
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. Honore de Balzac
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book. C. S. Lewis
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. Chuck Palahniuk
Cotton rows crisscross the world. And dead-tired nights of yearning. Thunderbolts on leather strops. And all my body burning. Sugar cane reach up to God. And every baby crying. Shame a blanket of my night. And all my days are dying Maya Angelou
Dave Eggers quote: "We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day."
We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. Dave Eggers

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