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Idries Shah quote: "It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I..."
It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance? Idries Shah
Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever. Lloyd Alexander
NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me r, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Andrea Dworkin quote: "Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the..."
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. Andrea Dworkin
He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly. Cornelia Funke
Harold Bloom quote: "Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more..."
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. Harold Bloom
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more. Nick Hornby
In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. John McCain
Roberto Bolano quote: "Reading is more important than writing."
Reading is more important than writing. Roberto Bolano
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. Karl Lagerfeld
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot..."
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Chuck Palahniuk
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. Jonathan Swift
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. Albert Einstein
Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need." James Patterson
Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world. David O. McKay

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