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Saying Quotes (page 236)

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today. Lady Gaga
If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable. And if another Sphinx should arise to propose another enigma to man–saying, what burden is that which only is insupportable by human fortitude? I should answer at once: It is the burden of the Incommunicable Thomas de Quincey
I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me. Roger Ebert
He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death. Arthur Rimbaud
The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get. Richard Russo
Ayn Rand quote: "I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to..."
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Ayn Rand
You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever. Mark Haddon
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time. Mark Haddon
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. H. L. Mencken
Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, “My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jack Kerouac quote: "If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?"
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing? Jack Kerouac
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around..."
I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF. Bret Easton Ellis
Mark Twain quote: "All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange..."
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live. Mark Twain
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood? Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule. Charles Spurgeon

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