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Stockdale, a lonely young fellow, who had for weeks felt a great craving for somebody on whom to throw away superfluous interest, and even tenderness, was not sorry to join her.... Thomas Hardy
You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem. Sting
Bill Hicks quote: "not all drugs are good.. some of them are great"
not all drugs are good.. some of them are great Bill Hicks
Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And now he's considering (or, okay, refusing to consider) law school. Was the burden of his potential too much for him? Michael Cunningham
-I love yeh, son, said Jimmy Sr. He could say it and no one could hear him, except young Jimmy, because of the singing and roaring and breaking glasses. -I think you’re fuckin’ great, said Jimmy Sr. -Ah fuck off, will yeh, said Jimmy Jr. -Packie saved the fuckin’ penalty, not me. But he liked what he’d heard, Jimmy Sr could tell that. He gave Jimmy Sr a dig in the stomach. -You’re not a bad oul’ cunt yourself, he said. Roddy Doyle
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "The fact that a great many people believe something is no..."
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. W. Somerset Maugham
And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought. Ernest Hemingway
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life... Barry Lopez
L. Ron Hubbard quote: "A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are..."
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. L. Ron Hubbard
I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth. F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Charles Alexander Eastman quote: "Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and..."
Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone. Charles Alexander Eastman
What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them. Elizabeth Gilbert
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. William Shakespeare
Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must. Cormac McCarthy

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