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Doe Quotes (page 99)

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. Viktor E. Frankl
No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection."But if no private detective looks like a private detective, how does a private detective know what it is he's supposed not to look like? Seems to me there's a problem there. Douglas Adams
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work..."
To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This wood,” Yam told him, “is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?” “Would I understand more if I did?” Hume asked. “You might,” said Yam. “Both of us might.” “Then it’s worth a try,” Hume agreed. They went together down the left-hand fork. Diana Wynne Jones
Mitch Albom quote: "Fairness does not govern life and death."
Fairness does not govern life and death. Mitch Albom
(about finding evidence of the past)And when you get that confirmation, it would instantlybecome the past itself. So in effect, you would be using thepast, which does not exist, to confirm something else fromthe past. And if you repeat the process a thousand times,with a thousand different pieces of evidence, together theywould still be nothing but impressions of the past supportingother impressions of the past. Scott Adams
What does it mean to feel something similar to the way. God feels? Is that like saying a pebble is similar to the sun because both are round? he responded. Scott Adams
Albert Camus quote: "Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like..."
Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon. Albert Camus
Because we are not in a civilization which believes strongly in oracles or sacred places, we see the full frenzy of those who killed themselves to find the sepulcher of Christ. But being in a civilization which does believe in this dogma of fact for fact? sake, we do not see the full frenzy of those who kill themselves to find the North Pole. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Henry Miller quote: "Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. ..."
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. Henry Miller
That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” Eddie shook his head. “We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain’t fair.” The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. Mitch Albom
...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times? E. L. Doctorow
Suzanne Collins quote: "Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer..."
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled. Suzanne Collins
Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life,' the Saw-Horse answered for himself; 'but I seem to learn very quickly, and often it occurs to me that I know more than any of those around me.' 'Perhaps you do,' said the Emperor; 'for experience does not always mean wisdom. - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 89 chapter 11 L. Frank Baum
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think. Franz Kafka

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