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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. Willa Cather
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius. Louis de Bernieres
Thomas Hardy quote: "Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror."
Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror. Thomas Hardy
Kanye West quote: "I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or..."
I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding Kanye West
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of..."
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. L. M. Montgomery
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime. Michael Crichton
Earl Nightingale quote: "A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read."
A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read. Earl Nightingale
no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people. Louisa May Alcott
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Babe Ruth quote: "It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up."
It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up. Babe Ruth
John Irving quote: "Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been..."
Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake. John Irving
So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality? Suzanne Collins
Jodi Picoult quote: "You can miss a person you've never known."
You can miss a person you've never known. Jodi Picoult
Maya Angelou quote: "A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream..."
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream. Maya Angelou
But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close... Sarah Vowell

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