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Henry Rollins quote: "Life forgets me but will not let me forget. Holds me down and..."
Life forgets me but will not let me forget. Holds me down and tells me that I'm free. Henry Rollins
A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read…What I began by reading I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau
Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that skinny girl. Unlike other girls in the class, she never backed down, and she would not for a second hesitate to use her fists or any weapon at hand to protect herself. She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit. Steig Larsson
He couldn't see her, sitting outside in the darkness, looking in at the light. A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative. Stumbiling through their parts nursing someone else’s sorrow. Grieving someone else’s grief. Unable somehow to change plays. Or purchase, for a fee some cheap brand of exorcism from a conveyor with a fancy degree, who would sit them down and say in one of many ways: “ Your not the sinners. You’re the sinned against. You were only... Arundhati Roy
Morris West quote: "[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world..."
[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t it? Morris West
A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months. Ezra Taft Benson
Uncle alone in the house with the children said he'd dress up to amuse them. After a long wait, as he did not appear, they went down and saw a masked man putting the table silver into a bag. 'Oh, Uncle,' they cried in delight. 'Yes, isn't my make-up good?' said Uncle, taking his mask off. Thus goes the Hegelian syllogism of humour. Thesis: Uncle made himself up as a burglar (a laugh for the children); antithesis: it WAS a burglar (a laugh for the reader); synthesis: it still was Uncle... Vladimir Nabokov
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb..."
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. Elizabeth Gilbert
L. M. Montgomery quote: "When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star..."
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. L. M. Montgomery
Ray Bradbury quote: "How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"
How many times can a man go down and still be alive? Ray Bradbury
Nelson Mandela quote: "Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I..."
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. Nelson Mandela
You got to knock a man down and put your knife at his throat before he'll hear you, like I did to that trooper. The truth seems hateful to most everybody. Thomas Berger
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end. Cormac McCarthy
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese..."
Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese that had to die in the process. Augusten Burroughs
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment. Alice Hoffman

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