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I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether it is insured or not. 'But what shall I do with my furniture?'...It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run. Henry David Thoreau
Well, coming out of the courthouse that night Miss Gates was-she goin' down the steps in front of us, you musta not seen her- she was talking with Miss Stephen Crawford. I heard her say it's time somebody taught 'em a lesson, they were gettin' way above themselves, an' the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home- Harper Lee
James Patterson quote: "I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it...."
I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do. James Patterson
Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself. Martin Luther King jr.
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart...."
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. Harriet Beecher Stowe
David Baldacci quote: "Number of children fathered got little enough to do with being..."
Number of children fathered got little enough to do with being a good daddy? - Louisa Mae Cardinal David Baldacci
Herman Hesse quote: "If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he..."
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he can do. Herman Hesse
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not... Carl Jung
What could go wrong...Doing some stupid impulsive thing that cause the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition. Orson Scott Card
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on..."
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you. Rainer Maria Rilke
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon Aristotle
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites Thomas Jefferson
Jack Kerouac quote: "Beautiful girls. Just primp. But beautiful boys. Do suffer."
Beautiful girls. Just primp. But beautiful boys. Do suffer. Jack Kerouac
And that was fine, except that she didn't have any old friends anymore. Kids back home who'd been friendly were now...respectful, because of the hat. There was a kind of wall, as if she'd grown up and they hadn't. What could they talk about? She'd been to places they couldn't even imagine. Most of them hadn't even been to Twoshirts, which was only half a day away. And this didn't worry them at all. They were going to do the jobs their fathers did, or raise children like their mothers did. And... Terry Prachett
I have never thought I could take it, not evenfor the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from along lineof womenwho put themselvesfirst. Sharon Olds

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