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Christopher Morley quote: "Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which..."
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. Christopher Morley
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Stephen King
Man, Sub-creator, the refracted lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filledwith Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build. Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right(used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made. J. R. R. Tolkien
Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday. Cornelia Funke
John Henry Newman quote: "Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have..."
Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often. John Henry Newman
But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband greatly loved her. Shirley Hazzard
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". John Muir
Patti Smith quote: "I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of..."
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something. Patti Smith
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love. Gordon B. Hinckley
Virginia C. Andrews quote: "love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's..."
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. Virginia C. Andrews
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not..."
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. Ernest Hemingway
We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly. James Baldwin
Camille Claudel quote: "I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so..."
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. Camille Claudel
I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog? Vladimir Nabokov
A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could... Bell Hooks

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