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Joseph Campbell quote: "If the path before you is clear, it's probably someone..."
If the path before you is clear, it's probably someone else's"Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell
Who are you in love with?" I said then. For a minute Marco didn't say anything, he simply opened his mouth and breathed out a blue, vaporous ring."Perfect!" he laughed. The ring widened and blurred, ghost-pale on the dark air. Then he said, "I am in love with my cousin."I felt no surprise."Why don't you marry her?"Impossible."Why?"Marco shrugged. "She's my first cousin. She's going to be a nun."Is she beautiful?"There's no one to touch her."Does she know you love her?"Of course."I paused. The... Sylvia Plath
Neil Gaiman quote: "We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And..."
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions. Neil Gaiman
Johnny Cash quote: "Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are..."
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here. Johnny Cash
It also bugs me when I hear about "Angelina's adopted son" or "Rosie's adopted children"--as if that word will always separate them instead of binding them together. Angelina's son and Rosie's kids and I sould get a regular apostrophe-plus-s like everybody else. Kristin Chenoweth
Terry Prachett quote: "When all else failed, she tried being reasonable."
When all else failed, she tried being reasonable. Terry Prachett
Herman Melville quote: "oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on..."
...oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. Herman Melville
He is suddenly, dodderer and ass, taken by an ache in his skin, a simple love for them both that asks nothing but their safety, and he'll always manage to describe as something else--'concern,' you know, 'fondness... Thomas Pynchon
These relatives of hers, the Boles and the Jetters and the Pooles, used to be around the house a lot, or else Lea wanted to be at one of their houses. It was a clan that didn't always enjoy one another's company but who made sure they got plenty of it. Alice Munro
...are you a person with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surpring or are you a tool? A tool just serves it's user, and it's not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplich something special -something more than you can do for yourself - you can't use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that's free to not be what you had in mind. Stephen R. Donaldson
I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Henry David Thoreau
Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed... Daniel Dennett
Wow," I said, since it was all I could think of to say. "Wow. That's some outfit." When you've got a big guy wearing Lycra it doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I resisted the temptation to ask Eric to turn around."I don't believe I could be convincing as a queen," Eric said, "but I decided this sent such a mixed signal, almost anything was possible." He fluttered his eyelashes at me. Eric was definitely enjoying this."Oh, yes," I said, trying to find somewhere else to look.... Charlaine Harris
Caroline B. Cooney quote: "Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for..."
Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you. Caroline B. Cooney
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else. Jodi Picoult

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