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Stephenie Meyer quote: "It's his own fault he doesn't like the things I remember, though."
It's his own fault he doesn't like the things I remember, though. Stephenie Meyer
Mother Teresa quote: "But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is..."
But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult. Mother Teresa
Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it. Haruki Murakami
We know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All we know who lie in gaol Is that the walls are strong And each day is like a year A year whose days are long. Oscar Wilde
He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas. T. H. White
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution. Maya Angelou
Haruki Murakami quote: "Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like..."
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. Haruki Murakami
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him? Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice... The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within the little frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our sue, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside that frame and... C. S. Lewis
Human beings mostly aren't [evil]. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and heir hearts and minds will follow. Neil Gaiman
Amy Tan quote: "We are living in a world where everything is false. The..."
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. Amy Tan
I didn't like parties. I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse. Charles Bukowski
The state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting ‘A’... H. L. Mencken
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus Mc. Crae Larry McMurtry
Mitch Albom quote: "Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the..."
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes. Mitch Albom

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