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I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line. Laura Lippman
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism. Thomas Sowell
All people know the Greater Hunger...It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things..."For love?" Renie asked."Yes, I suppose that could be true. Tad Williams
J. D. Salinger quote: "Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them..."
Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away. J. D. Salinger
Agatha Christie quote: "For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth,..."
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away? Agatha Christie
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive? Lois McMaster Bujold
Neil Gaiman quote: "Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die,..."
Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die, the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me. Neil Gaiman
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the..."
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. Aldous Huxley
When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take the shell into acount. By the shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we are each of us made up of a cluster of apurtenances. What do you call one's self? Where does it begin? Where does it end? It overflows into everythng tht belongs to us - and then flows back again. (...) One's self - for other people - is one's expression... Henry James
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. Margaret Atwood
The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert. Bret Easton Ellis
Willie Nelson quote: "Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to..."
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless. Willie Nelson
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists. Oliver Stone

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