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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
What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God’s presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private. Nicholas Sparks
Moon, moon, when you leave me aloneall the darkness isan utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonablenever to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to saywhen you see me. Robert Creeley
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. Thomas Jefferson
Eleanor Porter quote: "It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better..."
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? Eleanor Porter
Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning anything in this country. You see a nation which is the leader of the rest of the world, that had to pay the price of that ticket, and the price of that ticket is we're sitting in the most illiterate nation in the world. THE MOST ILLITERATE NATION IN THE WORLD. A monument to illiteracy. And... James Baldwin
I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people. [laughs] Paul Thomas Anderson
there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. Thatother people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal. Emily Giffin
That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one. Patrick Marber
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. John Wayne
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you..."
So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love. Jeffrey Eugenides
There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see."You're wrong! You don't know where your parents are, do you?" she turned and looked at Coraline. "Now," she said, "you're going to stay here for ever and always. Neil Gaiman
William Shakespeare quote: "Tis too much proved—that with devotion's visage And pious..."
Tis too much proved—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. William Shakespeare
Michael Pollan: "The industrialization--and dehumanization--of American animal farming is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: no other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do."U.S. consumers may take our pick of reasons to be wary of the resulting product: growth hormones, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, unhealthy cholesterol composition, deadly E. coli strains, fuel consumption, concentration of manure into toxic waste lagoons,... Barbara Kingsolver
I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen. Nora Roberts

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