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Owning Quotes (page 265)

William S. Burroughs quote: "There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business."
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. William S. Burroughs
Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, 'I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls. Annie Dillard
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Things have a mind of its own; it’s simply the matter of..."
Things have a mind of its own; it’s simply the matter of waking up their souls.” – Melquiades Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bruce Springsteen quote: "The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were..."
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. Bruce Springsteen
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity... George MacDonald
As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him. Marcus Aurelius
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of... Daniel Webster
I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world Lady Gaga
he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence Oswald Chambers
But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace. Janet Frame
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "a person's true security consists not in his own persinal,..."
....a person's true security consists not in his own persinal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of mankind. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anthony Burgess quote: "It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God..."
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. Anthony Burgess
Ann Patchett quote: "I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own."
I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own. Ann Patchett
. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today. Candace Bushnell
You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war. Frank Herbert

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