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But we do believe in religion—at least for other people. It is a means of marketing hope, and of instilling ethical precepts on the cheap. It is also a form of discipline. Christopher Hitchens
I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them. Louisa May Alcott
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their songs instead. Neil Gaiman
Ow!' was the first thing out of her mouth, followed by a steam of articulate and literate curses that were neither blasphemous nor prurient. She'd had years to develop a vocabulary of invective that wouldn't offend anyone. It was the sort of thing a princess had to do if she was going to be able to adequately vent her feelings. Mercedes Lackey
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "All We have to decide is what to do with the time that is..."
All We have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes..."
Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss! J. R. R. Tolkien
And do you think that unto such as you, A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew, God gave the Secret, and denied it me? -Well, well, what matters it! believe that too. Richard Le Gallienne
John Steinbeck quote: "It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to..."
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. John Steinbeck
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate. Christopher Hitchens
Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly? Haruki Murakami
One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country. Tom Brokaw
Oscar Wilde quote: "One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after..."
One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. Oscar Wilde
She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one ‘you’ in the world and that was me. Graham Greene
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you..."
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do Jean-Paul Sartre
But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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