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Ifs And Quotes (page 148)

If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. Khalil Gibran
If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why Thomas Jefferson
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haruki Murakami
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
And let me tell you this: our higher senses are blunted. We are so drenched with material sin, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it Arthur Machen
Wendell Berry quote: "If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob,..."
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel? Wendell Berry
John Waters quote: "If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't..."
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don’t sleep with people who don’t read! John Waters
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and..."
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Charles Dickens
If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it? Henry Rollins
If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over. Neil Gaiman
Lao Tzu quote: "If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great..."
If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it. Lao Tzu
...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from anywhere further away. Nor for in the end again by degrees or as though switched on dark falls there again that certain dark that alone certain ashes can. Through it who knows yet another end beneath a cloudless sky of a last end if ever there had to be another absolutely had to be. Samuel Beckett
David Sedaris quote: "If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and..."
If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. David Sedaris
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. Colleen McCullough

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