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Goodly Quotes (page 492)

Kurt Vonnegut quote: "What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny."
What does seem important? Bargaining in good faith with destiny. Kurt Vonnegut
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for..."
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. J. R. R. Tolkien
Lauren Bacall quote: "You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you..."
You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought Lauren Bacall
You are as well prepared as any young Westerner could hope to be, equipped with good diet, lavish health insurance, two degrees, foreign travel and languages, orthodonture, psychotherapy, property, and capital; and your skin is a beautiful color. Look at you? look at the burnish of you. Martin Amis
Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools. Bob Dylan
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not. C. S. Lewis
Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place. Leon Uris
L. Frank Baum quote: "Oh - You're a very bad man!"Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good..."
Oh - You're a very bad man!"Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard. L. Frank Baum
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on..."
The old order changes, giving place to the new... least on good custom should corrupts the world. Alfred Lord Tennyson
To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others. Frances Farmer
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris L. M. Montgomery
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. W. H. Auden
I can only hope that, upon learning of my imminent execution, Good Samaritans in Colorado will be moved to ship me a plump love apple from their backyard patch - and should they happen to be friendly with Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps persuade him to inject it with a little something beforehand. Hunter will know just what I mean, and trust me, it won't affect the taste of the tomato.**When I wrote those lines, Thompson was alive and blooming. Now, with his sad demise, still more color has faded... Tom Robbins
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing. William Shakespeare
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.'Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN. Thor Heyerdahl

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