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Goodly Quotes (page 172)

Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break..."
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. Chuck Palahniuk
Thomas Wilson quote: "The best thing you can do is get very good at being you."
The best thing you can do is get very good at being you. Thomas Wilson
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare quote: "People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are..."
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. William Shakespeare
Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations.... Mark Twain
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity. Simone Weil
It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. Terry Prachett
All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without. Dr. Seuss
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts. Mary Baker Eddy
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! Rainer Maria Rilke
I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it? and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die? I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there. E. M. Forster
Mark Twain quote: "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening..."
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does the work. Mark Twain
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps,... Alexis de Tocqueville
Paul Newman quote: "Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like..."
Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby. Paul Newman
J. K. Rowling quote: "I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are..."
I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know. J. K. Rowling

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