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When my face was slashed, my dad held me on his lap in the car to the hospital, applying direct pressure with the swift calm of a veteran and an ex-fireman. I looked up and asked him, "Am I going to die?" "Don't speak," he said. So, yeah, he's not the kind of guy who wants to watch people eat bugs on Survivor. It's so clear to me how those two things are related. Tina Fey
Martha Beck quote: "Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what..."
Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back. Martha Beck
I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't."I don't understand. Why not?"I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did..."But you're the king."That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that."Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish. David Eddings
Charlaine Harris quote: "Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that..."
Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.” -- Manfred Charlaine Harris
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a time in the wilderness. If he is of the proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek, but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel, and these are always worth listening to and thinking about.... One must seek, then, what only the solitary... Loren Eiseley
What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things. Shigeru Miyamoto
As the eye of narrative drew back from the coffin on its stand, two things happened. One happened comparatively slowly, and this was Vargo's realisation that he never recalled the coffin having a pillow before. The other was Greebo deciding that he was as mad as hell and wasn't going to take it any more. Terry Prachett
Ken Kesey quote: "they wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon..."
they wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going Ken Kesey
I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut. Elizabeth Wurtzel
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "The war spirit's getting into me again. I have a hundred years..."
The war spirit's getting into me again. I have a hundred years of Ohio love behind me and I'm going to bomb out this trench. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mignon' said the King, 'soon you are going to be a great king'. But he also told Anjou, in a memorable phrase 'Try to remain at peace with your neighbors: I have loved war too much... Antonia Fraser
John Steinbeck quote: "Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That..."
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile. John Steinbeck
Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. Milan Kundera
Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will. Friedrich Nietzsche
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going..."
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore. Kurt Vonnegut

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