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Nick Cave quote: "But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals. Sooner or later,..."
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals. Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . Nick Cave
Charles Spurgeon quote: "If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I..."
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. Charles Spurgeon
Davy Crockett quote: "better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to..."
better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one. Davy Crockett
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils". Robert Louis Stevenson
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK. Katie Couric
And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them. John Steinbeck
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth? John Waters
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. Terry Eagleton
Stephen Colbert quote: "Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting..."
Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem. Stephen Colbert
I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely. Stephen Colbert
I find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff. I'm not interested in other people thinking differently. I don't care. I'm just like yeast - I eat sugar and I shit alcohol. And there's a huge culture that goes with that. Alcohol creates massive shifts in world history, and it changes people's lives. People get pregnant because of alcohol. But the yeast doesn't give a fuck. The yeast isn't going, "I... Louis C. K.
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. Tom Hiddleston
The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake. Thomas Keneally
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and regret and... Richard Ford
Leslie Nielsen quote: "Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith...."
Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith. Leslie Nielsen

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