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This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that. Doug Coupland
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. L. M. Montgomery
To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal. Richard Russo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood."
A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[R]aging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from clich to self-parody. A. Whitney Brown
Naomi Wolf quote: "Health makes good propaganda."
Health makes good propaganda. Naomi Wolf
[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me. Georgette Heyer
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Franz Liszt quote: "Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it,..."
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. Franz Liszt
Jodi Picoult quote: "I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be..."
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. Jodi Picoult
Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil. E. M. Forster
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T. S. Eliot
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women. Milan Kundera
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against..."
How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche
C. S. Lewis quote: "The world does not need more Christian literature. What it..."
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. C. S. Lewis

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