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Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial sentiment out of the Skagit landscape in order that a more refined Chinese moon might brush the countryside. In the aloof washes of moonlight no form seemed to stir. Tom Robbins
A. Whitney Brown quote: "The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only..."
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed. A. Whitney Brown
I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them. Og Mandino
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet? for the sake of hamburgers Peter Singer
The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes. Anne Rice
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. Julian Barnes
For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may have many thousand…and these selves of which we are built up, one on top of the other, as plates are piled on a waiter’s hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own… so that one will only come if it is raining, another in a room with green... Virginia Woolf
the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about lifeis finding it gone. Charles Bukowski
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Was that life? Well then, once more!"
Was that life? Well then, once more! Friedrich Nietzsche
Paul Valery quote: "Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a..."
Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language. Paul Valery
It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself,” she told him. “I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any more. Neil Gaiman
That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. Henry David Thoreau
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman..."
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." - Louisa May Alcott
Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there were always more. Salman Rushdie
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made. Henry David Thoreau

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