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Doris Lessing quote: "How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't..."
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to... Doris Lessing
Nita stood there horrified. “You just killed him!” “No,” the Lone One said, “you did. Not a bad start, but then you were intent enough on killing something.” All around Nita, the snarling of the viruses was getting louder and louder. “Anyway, don’t be too concerned about Pralaya; I’ll find another of his people to replace him if there’s need. Now, though, matters stand as I told you they stood. All we need is your conscious answer to the question. Can we do business?” Nita stood... Diane Duane
George Orwell quote: "If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave,..."
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. George Orwell
Frank McCourt quote: "Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American..."
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve. Frank McCourt
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and..."
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. Vladimir Nabokov
[Farmer] went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P [Preferential Option for the Poor] gospel, and to South Africa, where he debated a World Bank official at an international AIDS conference. "Africans must learn to curb their sexual appetites," the banker remarked, and Farmer replied, "I want to talk about other bankers, not the World Bankers, but bankers in general. My suspicion is they're not getting a lot of sex, because they spend a lot... Tracy Kidder
Did you hear that crazy man? we said.--Education is your mother? we said. We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr. Kondit, like more than a few of the men and boys who had crossed the desert to get to Ethiopia, had lost his mind along the way. Dave Eggers
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chuck Jones quote: "You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started."
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started. Chuck Jones
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Don't get..."
Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out. Gordon B. Hinckley
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get to other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. Henry Ford
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. Ursula K. Le Guin
As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean. Jack Kerouac
Don’t cry, Booboo. Remember the flag only halfway up the pole? Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I really have to sleep here in a second. So listen - one way to lower the flag to half mast is just to lower the flag. There’s another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height. You get me? You understand what I mean, Mario? David Foster Wallace

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