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When a man is ill, he has only one wish -to gain health, and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed Alija Izetbegovic
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering. Marcel Proust
I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong. Lauren Bacall
Jane Austen quote: "If he does not come to me, then,' said she, 'I shall give him..."
If he does not come to me, then,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever. Jane Austen
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. Brendan Behan
I am afraid that I idealize Hickman and that he might not be this at all. In fact, he probably isn't. But it does not make any difference. If he isn't, he could be, and that's enough. Ayn Rand
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot) Agatha Christie
Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alan Sillitoe quote: "I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's..."
I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say. Alan Sillitoe
Steven Moffat quote: "Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets..."
Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that. Steven Moffat
Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death. George MacDonald
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees..."
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls. Katherine Anne Porter
Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between thehouses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness of thefields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. Theygo on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and theydo not come back. The place they go towards is a place even lessimaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describeit at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem toknow where they are... Ursula K. Le Guin
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?"
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist? Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die. Bernard Cornwell

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