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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl
Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there? Chelsea Handler
John Steinbeck quote: "Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your..."
Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent. John Steinbeck
Jhonen Vasquez quote: "The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns..."
The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves. Jhonen Vasquez
We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character. Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. Mitch Albom
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she... Louise Erdrich
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. Jane Austen
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "90% of the work in this country is doneby people who don't..."
90% of the work in this country is doneby people who don't feel good". Theodore Roosevelt
Terry Prachett quote: "Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny..."
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. Terry Prachett
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does. John Steinbeck
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. Virginia Woolf
What leads me to accredit the truth of what great Savonati has conveyed to us is the way in which he conscientiously tells us everything. In novels written nowadays, writers pay little heed to their heroes' stomachs. They send them off on errands, embroil them in adventures which leave them as breathless as the reader, and yet they are never hungry. In this respect, they bear little resemblance to the author. In my opinion, this, more than anything else, serves to discredit this type of work.... Honore de Balzac
The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other. Neil Gaiman
If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. Steve Martin

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