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For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. Paul Theroux
George Byron quote: "You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you..."
You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock? George Byron
David Hare quote: "You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a..."
You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire. David Hare
Tupac Shakur quote: "If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day."
If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day. Tupac Shakur
Corrie Ten Boom quote: "Happiness isn't something that depends on our..."
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves. Corrie Ten Boom
Vimes felt his hand begin to move of its own accord--And stopped. Red rage froze. There was The Beast, all around him. And that's all it was. A beast. Useful, but still a beast. You could hold it on a chain, and make it dance, and juggle balls. It didn't think. It was dumb. What you were, what you were, was not The Beast. Terry Prachett
Margaret Mead quote: "You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how..."
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel. Margaret Mead
They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded. Russell Banks
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be..."
I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. Virginia Woolf
The Angels don’t like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. “Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out. Hunter S. Thompson
So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough. Haruki Murakami
Marcus Aurelius quote: "Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make..."
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make... Amos Oz
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Julian Barnes
schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that they cannot learn unless shown how, and that the way to make them learn is to divide up the prescribed material into a sequence of tiny tasks to be mastered one at a time, each with it's approrpriate 'morsel' and 'shock.' And when this method doesn't work, the schools assume there is something wrong with the children -- something they must try to diagnose and... John Holt

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