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Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets. Kevin J. Anderson
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development. Flannery O'Connor
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink. Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkand rise and sink and rise and sink again. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath. Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with deatheven as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, pinned down by need and moaning for releaseor nagged by want past resolution's power, I might be driven to... Edna St. Vincent Millay
They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people. Eddie Izzard
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would..."
...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom... Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes. Fareed Zakaria
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Harry S. Truman
Charles Bukowski quote: "I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a..."
I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time. Charles Bukowski
To give the devil its due, ours is the best Age men ever lived in; we are all more comfortable and virtuous than we ever were; we have many new accomplishments, advertisements in green pastures, telephones in bedrooms, more newspapers than we want to read, and extremely punctilious diagnosis of maladies. A doctor examined a young lady the other day, and among his notes were there: ‘Not afraid of small rooms, ghosts, or thunderstorms – not made drunk by hearing Wagner; brown hair, artistic... John Galsworthy
George R. R. Martin quote: "Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few."
Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few. George R. R. Martin
How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? Thisis Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting. Doug Coupland
The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon. Joseph Conrad
i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. Paulo Coelho
Simon's initial annoyance with having so many people and animals swarming around gave way to the realization that sometimes people didn't get in the way, but helped make a necessary and tedious job go smoother. Nora Roberts
Jane Austen quote: "When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am..."
When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane Austen

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