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Instead, I woke early the next morning, before sunrise, and went out into the world. I walked past my car. I stepped onto the pavement, still warm from the previous day’s sun. I started walking. In bare feet, I traveled upriver toward the place where I was born and will someday die. At that moment, if you had broken open my heart you could have looked inside and seen the thin white skeletons of one thousand salmon. Sherman Alexie
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the..."
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. David Herbert Lawrence
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for. Margaret Atwood
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm... Haruki Murakami
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. Leo Tolstoy
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse. Thomas More
Michael Pollan quote: "Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began..."
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. Michael Pollan
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy. Susan Sontag
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more. William Least Heat-Moon
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste. Bill Watterson
Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. :-) Rhonda Byrne
William Strunk, Jr. quote: "Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is..."
Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so. William Strunk, Jr.
Emily Giffin quote: "Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me...."
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage Emily Giffin
Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few? Wyndham Lewis
Joseph Campbell quote: "Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear..."
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. Joseph Campbell

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