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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. Barbara Kingsolver
I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. Harry Crews
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life. Chuck Palahniuk
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when..."
I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight. Laurell K. Hamilton
Raymond Chandler quote: "Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard."
Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard. Raymond Chandler
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out. Erica Jong
Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it. Sue Grafton
Stephen King quote: "It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that..."
It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind. Stephen King
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history. Bill Bryson
Mark Twain quote: "It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what..."
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we think we know, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
The cigar made its traverse from one side of Harry King to the other. He was known to dote on his daughters, who he felt had rather suffered from having a father who needed to take two baths just to get dirty. Terry Prachett
He waved away the whiskeybottle with a smile. In this tall room, the cracked plaster sootstreaked with the shapes of laths beneath, this barrenness, this fellowship of the doomed. Where life pulsed obscenely fecund. In the drift of voices and the laughter and the reek of stale beer the Sunday loneliness seeped away. Aint that right Suttree? What's that? About there bein caves all in under the city. That's right. What all's down there in em? Blind slime. As above, so it is below. Suttree... Cormac McCarthy
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia. Thomas Sowell
We had been playing our assigned roles on the office stage, but stepping down from the stage, abandoning the images that we had been projecting there, we were both just unstable, awkward lumps of flesh, warm pieces of meat kitted out with digestive tracts and hearts and brains and reproductive organs. Haruki Murakami
I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground. Meg Cabot

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