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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. Michael Connelly
The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too. Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as..."
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time. Robert Anton Wilson
Lily Tomlin quote: "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. Lily Tomlin
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius. Michael Cunningham
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after. Ernest Hemingway
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words. Terry Prachett
Oscar Wilde quote: "Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people..."
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that. Oscar Wilde
Louise Erdrich quote: "We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand..."
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try. Louise Erdrich
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel."
If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel. Gordon B. Hinckley
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year. Charles Bukowski
A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness. Thomas Hughes
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. Bob Newhart
Bill Shankly quote: "When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league..."
When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along Bill Shankly
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it Flannery O'Connor

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