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Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like..."
Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention. Gordon B. Hinckley
The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal. Charles R. Swindoll
Charles Bukowski quote: "Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a..."
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . Charles Bukowski
Nicholas Sparks quote: "I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I..."
I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you. Nicholas Sparks
Alain Badiou quote: "Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death."
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Alain Badiou
His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. James Joyce
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never..."
She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life. Jeffrey Eugenides
I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails the best hopes of mankind fail with it. Henry Cabot Lodge
Come here, he said. Rebeca obeyed. She stopped beside the hammock in an icy sweat, feeling knots forming in her intestines, while Jose Arcadio stroked her ankle with the tips of his fingers, then her calves, then her thighs, murmuring: Oh, little sister, little sister. She had to make a supernatural effort not to die when a startlingly regulated cyclonic power lifted her up by the waist and despoiled her of her intimacy with 3 slashes of its claws and quartered her like a little bird. She... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rene Magritte quote: "I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy,..."
I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy, since I want nothing we know about. Rene Magritte
You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them." He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-hand. "Do you want me to hurt you? Laurell K. Hamilton
To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grownups who are nolonger interested in anything but figures.. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have... Herman Melville
Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning-- sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this. Anne Lamott
Pears can just fuck off too. 'Cause they're gorgeous little beasts, but they're ripe for half an hour, and you're never there. They're like a rock or they're mush. In the supermarket, people banging in nails. "I'll just put these shelves up, mate, then you can have the pear."? So you think, "I'll take them home and they'll ripen up." But you put them in the bowl at home, and they sit there, going, "No! No! Don't ripen yet, don't ripen yet. Wait til he goes out the room! Ripen! Now now now! Eddie Izzard

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