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Louisa May Alcott quote: "Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one’s conquests."
Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one’s conquests. Louisa May Alcott
Few of the university's sons had been distinguished in the nation's life--there had been an obscure President of the United States, and a few Cabinet members, but few had sought such distinction: it was glory enough to be a great man in one's State. Nothing beyond mattered very much. Thomas Wolfe
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them. Cesare Pavese
C. S. Lewis quote: "You never know how much you really believe anything until its..."
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. C. S. Lewis
Will Smith quote: "Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much..."
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/ Will Smith
And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own. Norton Juster
...but you live your life at the time you live it—you don’t have much of an overview when what’s happening to you is still happening. John Irving
Haruki Murakami quote: "There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on..."
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. Haruki Murakami
Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound. Kurt Vonnegut
That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which hadn't happened yet and might never occur. My mother was good at that. Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot of people wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on. She used to make me wonder why God had ever gone to all the trouble of creating reality. Quoth Mandarax:... Kurt Vonnegut
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity. Susan Sontag
. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. Larry McMurtry
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's... Nicholas Sparks
And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly obey, even setting aside their own conscience. And so we did. We corrected your deed and based it on miracle, mystery, and authority. And mankind rejoiced that they were once more led like sheep, and that at last such a terrible gift, which had brought them so much suffering, had been taken from... Fyodor Dostoevsky
..he began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense "only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday". P. D. James

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