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Ann Patchett quote: "Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and..."
Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. Ann Patchett
The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination- an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfilment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past but who may really be the guides to... Arundhati Roy
I’m just here to be your friend. Your best friend, one last time. You’d think I’d be used to telling you goodbye by now“C’mon, Bells! Nessie likes me, too, Stephenie Meyer
Erik Larson quote: "Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote,..."
Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, "Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off. Erik Larson
The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it. Wendell Berry
Virginia Woolf quote: "She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust."
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. Virginia Woolf
Ingrid Bergman quote: "Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out..."
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! Ingrid Bergman
And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend P. L. Travers
Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs. 'What's your name, dead man?' she said. Terry Prachett
Richard M. Nixon quote: "The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping..."
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. Richard M. Nixon
Fernando Pessoa quote: "I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory."
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory. Fernando Pessoa
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them. Bertrand Russell
Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger. Leo Strauss
I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that. Kurt Vonnegut
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful... Rainer Maria Rilke

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