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. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. Kurt Vonnegut
Well, suppose intelligent people don't believe, but that's from intelligence, and you, I say, squirt that you are, what do you understand about God? You were taught by some student, and if he'd taught you to light icon lamps, you'd do it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] American culture doesn't allow much room for slow reflection. I watch the working people who are supposed to be my role models getting pushed to go, go, go and take as little vacation time as possible. And then, often, vacations are full of endless activity too, so you might come back from your "break" feeling exhausted ... Whether you prefer to sit on a rock in a peaceful place, or take a wooden spoon to a simmering pot, it does the body good to quiet... Barbara Kingsolver
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control Denzel Washington
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against... Elizabeth Gaskell
How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had... Stephenie Meyer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were..."
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Socrates quote: "Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see..."
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Socrates
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret. David Foster Wallace
I fast every Sunday. I don’t eat anything. Just juices. […] It flushes out the system, cleans out the colon. I think that’s great. To really make it work, you have to do it properly. That’s the sewer valve of the system. You have to keep that clean like you clean the outside of your body. All these impurities come out of your system because you’re not clean inside. It comes out in pimples or disease or through big pores. Toxins trying to get out of your system. People should try to keep... Michael Jackson
Margaret Atwood quote: "But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives..."
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. Margaret Atwood
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shado?"
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shado? Louisa May Alcott
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another. James M. Cain
As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [...] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up. Kurt Vonnegut
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them. Edwidge Danticat

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