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Kazuo Ishiguro quote: "For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied..."
For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were "an umbrella. Kazuo Ishiguro
Louise Erdrich quote: "I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense."
I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense. Louise Erdrich
Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it. Terry Prachett
For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity. Thomas Moore
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Paulo Coelho
That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly."That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said... Michael Chabon
Nick Cave quote: "I've got some words of wisdom."
I've got some words of wisdom. Nick Cave
Janet Evanovich quote: "I could use some help with an FTA. What's your problem? He's..."
I could use some help with an FTA. What's your problem? He's old, and I'll look like a loser if I shoot him. Janet Evanovich
Truman Capote quote: "I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them..."
I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts. Truman Capote
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality. E. M. Forster
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words... Yukio Mishima
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings that we are, we will not be put off with a part. Give us only everything, and we will be content. And, after all, Cinderella, you have had your day. Some little dogs never get theirs. You must not be greedy. You have KNOWN happiness. The palace was Paradise for those few months, and the Prince's arms were about you, Cinderella,... Jerome K. Jerome
You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable. Paulo Coelho
Bertrand Russell quote: "All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some..."
All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accidentenabling unpopular persons to survive. Bertrand Russell
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit. Frederick Buechner

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