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A. J. Jacobs quote: "Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in."
Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in. A. J. Jacobs
If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one. Margaret Atwood
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not... Carl Jung
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one. Louis Althusser
And that was fine, except that she didn't have any old friends anymore. Kids back home who'd been friendly were now...respectful, because of the hat. There was a kind of wall, as if she'd grown up and they hadn't. What could they talk about? She'd been to places they couldn't even imagine. Most of them hadn't even been to Twoshirts, which was only half a day away. And this didn't worry them at all. They were going to do the jobs their fathers did, or raise children like their mothers did. And... Terry Prachett
Emily Dickinson quote: "The only Commandment I ever obeyed? 'Consider the Lilies."
The only Commandment I ever obeyed? 'Consider the Lilies. Emily Dickinson
He said he had only a few days ago believed in blasphemy as the way to salvation, but that you couldn't even believe in that because then you were believing in something to blaspheme. As for the Jesus who was reported to have been born at Bethlehem and crucified on Calvary for man's sins, Haze said, He was too foul a notion for a sane person to carry in his head, and he picked up the boy's water bucket and bammed it on the concrete pavement to emphasize what he was saying. Flannery O'Connor
How the miracle of our meeting. Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return. From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty. Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls. At the limits of the world. Anna Akhmatova
In the Green Machine there is no mercy; we make mercy, manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us. Thomas Harris
John Gardner quote: "Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only..."
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know John Gardner
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) Robert A. Heinlein
Isn’t that sweet of my only son to travel all this way so he can whine about his pathetic little friend? Maybe if I weren’t strapped to my deathbed I could muster up the strength to give a damn. David Sedaris
Daphne du Maurier quote: "I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done...."
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. Daphne du Maurier
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited..."
In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word? Jorge Luis Borges
John Steinbeck quote: "The only good writer was a dead writer."
The only good writer was a dead writer. John Steinbeck

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