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They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two ot three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit frimly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan... Lois McMaster Bujold
Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things. Italo Calvino
She decided to donate blood to the Red Cross; she wanted to donate a quart a week and her blood would be in the veins of Australians and Fighting French and Chinese, all over the whole world, and it would be as though she were close kin to all of these people. She could hear the army doctors saying that the blood of Frankie Addams was the reddest and the strongest blood that they had ever known. Carson McCullers
My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me. David Foster Wallace
Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory. Martin Luther
Nicholas Sparks quote: "The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't..."
The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all . Nicholas Sparks
Emile Zola quote: "Respectable people... What bastards!"
Respectable people... What bastards! Emile Zola
Charles Bukowski quote: "The trouble with these people is that their cities have never..."
The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up. Charles Bukowski
You should not be esteemed by others if you have no real inner virtue. People here in Japan esteem others on the basis of outward appearances, without knowing anything about real inner virtue; so students lacking the spirit of the Way are dragged down into bad habits and become subject to temptation. Dogen Zenji
I'm also hurt by injustice. But don't forget that we have passed through hell , and remained sane people inspite of everything. This is our victory. Alija Izetbegovic
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. Jeff Bezos
They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. E. M. Forster
What's the matter with you tonight?" he asked when we were out of earshot of Stirling and Co."I told you."No," he said, "it isn't just the murder tonight. Hell, I've seen you kill people and be less upset afterwards. What's wrong? Laurell K. Hamilton
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haruki Murakami
Katherine Mansfield quote: " but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate..."
... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield

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