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You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours, closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. J. R. R. Tolkien
And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us? Martin Luther
A work of (whatever) art can either be 'received' or 'used'. When we 'receive' it we expert our senses and imagination and various other powers according the the pattern set by the artist. When we 'use' it, we treat it as assistance for our own activities. The one, to use an old-fashioned image, is like being taken for a bicycle ride by a man who may know roads we have not yet explored. The other is like adding one of those little motor attachments to our own bicycle and then going for one of... C. S. Lewis
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all. George R. R. Martin
The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to. Dee Brown
R. A. Salvatore quote: "There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and..."
There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it? -Jacen Solo R. A. Salvatore
He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread--that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Patrick Marber quote: "Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist,..."
Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! Patrick Marber
Albert Einstein quote: "when u knw ur limits u go byond them"
when u knw ur limits u go byond them Albert Einstein
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I... Thomas Wolfe
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn
To a Young Poet. Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together. Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marguerite Duras quote: "Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into..."
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. Marguerite Duras
In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go. Jeanette Winterson
Maya Angelou quote: "Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you..."
Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go! Maya Angelou

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