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Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. Jeanette Winterson
Mark Twain quote: "Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great..."
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927 Mark Twain
Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic. Anne Lamott
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost. Evelyn Waugh
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. C. S. Lewis
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid. C. S. Lewis
Henry David Thoreau quote: "if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good..."
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? Henry David Thoreau
Desmond Tutu quote: "Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread,..."
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. Desmond Tutu
He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe." "Excuse me?" "It’s fucking near water. David Sedaris
The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back. Roger Zelazny
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lao Tzu quote: "Ruling a large kingdom is like cooking a small fish..."
Ruling a large kingdom is like cooking a small fish... Lao Tzu
The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some... Thomas Paine
Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn’t think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn’t find such a place in himself. Orson Scott Card
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head. Charles de Lint

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