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[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens
Leo Buscaglia quote: "Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are,..."
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. Leo Buscaglia
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is..."
Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? Cormac McCarthy
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not... Graham Chapman
as the "people of the centre" in everysense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:--they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French. Friedrich Nietzsche
Oscar Wilde quote: "It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to..."
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. Oscar Wilde
Thomas Fuller quote: "Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to..."
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. Thomas Fuller
Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well. Christopher Hitchens
Tom Stoppard quote: "People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the..."
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. Tom Stoppard
Haruki Murakami quote: "It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were..."
It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other. Haruki Murakami
Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave. Ray Bradbury
I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'"I thought of Hercule Poirot's words."I'm content," I said, "to be human...."We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong. Agatha Christie
Thomas Sowell quote: "Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the..."
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades. Thomas Sowell
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity... Russell Hoban
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there. Anne Lamott

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