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what's the matter?" he asked "nothing"what do you want me to do for you?"i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am. Milan Kundera
The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that could make the soldier do something he did not want was Midnight, and Midnight did things she did not want only when Whippersnapper wanted something. That put the kitten right at the top of the pecking order. A kitten! Diana Wynne Jones
Malcolm Gladwell quote: "Practice isn't the thing you do when you're good. It's the..."
Practice isn't the thing you do when you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. Malcolm Gladwell
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. Don DeLillo
Terry Prachett quote: "Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob..."
Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do. Terry Prachett
Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson
Louisa May Alcott quote: "We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our..."
We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly. Louisa May Alcott
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
(Meli, are you sure these "humans" are on our side?) (No ... but at least they are not Khieevi.) (That is beginning to seem less and less of a recommendation. Like us in form, perhaps, but hardly in ethics.) (That may not be entirely a bad thing. If they meet their friends with weapons in both hands, what do you suppose they do to their enemies?) Anne McCaffrey
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing..."
if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of... C. S. Lewis
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the..."
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else. George Bernard Shaw
If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it David Foster Wallace
Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done? Thomas Merton
I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all. Suzanne Collins

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