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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like aking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult. Orson Scott Card
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. Fred Rogers
The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them. Charles Dickens
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the..."
A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. Kurt Vonnegut
Joseph Epstein quote: "We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover..."
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves. Joseph Epstein
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion. Neil Gaiman
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the..."
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Lawrence Durrell
Wallace Stegner quote: "There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential..."
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. Wallace Stegner
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear. Arthur Schopenhauer
I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened. You do not need a psychiatrist to do this. A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he is just another bird drinking from your misery. My mother, she suffered. She lost her face and tried to hind it. She found only greater misery and finally could not hide that. There is... Amy Tan
If flying-saucer creatures or angels or whatever were to come here in a hundred years, say, and find us gone like the dinosaurs, what might be a good message for humanity to leave for them, maybe carved in great big letters on a Grand Canyon wall? Here is this old poop's suggestion: WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD... Kurt Vonnegut
Henry James quote: "I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home. Henry James
We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don’t practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people. Toni Cade Bambara
Janet Evanovich quote: "Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big..."
Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?"Lula Janet Evanovich
Hugo von Hofmannsthal quote: "To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful..."
To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis. Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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