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Victor Hugo quote: "A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when..."
A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good? Victor Hugo
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I wasn't going to be able to fall in love like a normal..."
I wasn't going to be able to fall in love like a normal person. Not when I was bleeding over someone else. Stephenie Meyer
We will endeavor to halt the Industrial Revolution before it is too late, to regulate population at a reasonable point, to eventually replace quantitative money with qualitative money, to decentralize, to conserve resources. The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to controlled proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier. And you don't give a shit who makes it, who works in... William S. Burroughs
Stephen King quote: "if a person doesn't know they're hurting, why, maybe they're..."
...if a person doesn't know they're hurting, why, maybe they're not. I was wrong. Stephen King
I am not much engaged by the problems of what you might call our day but I am burdened by the particular, the mad person who writes me a letter. It is no longer necessary for them even to write me. I know when someone is thinking of me. I learn to deal with this. Joan Didion
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else. Paul Auster
Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. Albert Camus
Anne Tyler quote: "This is a specific person, do you understand? Not just some..."
This is a specific person, do you understand? Not just some patient. I want to make sure you realize that. Anne Tyler
Isabel Allende quote: "He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person..."
He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent. Isabel Allende
That was well-done," Alan told her later as he gave Shelby a limited tour of the house. "Was it?" Laughing, she linked her hand with his. "He's a difficult man to resist." She rose on her toes to nibble his earlobe. "So's his firstborn."That term's to be used reverently," Alan warned her. "Personally I've always found it a pain in the- Nora Roberts
Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not made for friendship: common interests are not strong enough, private interests too absorbing. In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that. George Santayana
I know I'm a little different from everyone else, but I'm still human being. That's what I'd like you to realize. I'm just a regular person, not some monster. I feel the same things everyone else does, act the same way. Sometimes, though, that small difference feels like an abyss. But I guess there's not much I can do about it. Haruki Murakami
I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. Abraham Lincoln
Haruki Murakami quote: "When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person..."
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. Haruki Murakami

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