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Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right. Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time Terry Prachett
Graham Swift quote: "He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or..."
He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces. Graham Swift
Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of “comfortability.” They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
John Barth quote: "path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking..."
path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid- John Barth
Anton Chekhov quote: "[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from..."
[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers Anton Chekhov
How one minute she was talking to you and the next she had slipped into a private world where she turned her thoughts over and over, digesting stuff most people would choke on. I wanted to say, Teach me how to do that. Teach me how to take all this in. Sue Monk Kidd
Avril Lavigne quote: "Why should I care what other people think or me? I am who I am..."
Why should I care what other people think or me? I am who I am and that's who I wanna be. Avril Lavigne
Tad Williams quote: "Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t..."
Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t understand it. Tad Williams
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does... Khalil Gibran
Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?"Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer. Paulo Coelho
There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample the complex dimensions and flavors of words and phrases. They strive for totality not lineality. They are well aware that the words on the page have to be decanted with the utmost skill. Those who imagine they read only for "content" are illusioned. Marshall McLuhan
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho. Barbara Kingsolver
The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Leo Buscaglia
But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia. Ursula K. Le Guin

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