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Adrienne Rich quote: "We move but our words stand become responsible for more than..."
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intendedand this is verbal privilege Adrienne Rich
Kurt Cobain quote: "Its better to burn out than fade away."
Its better to burn out than fade away. Kurt Cobain
Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be. Norton Juster
The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness. J. M. Coetzee
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ConfuciusThis is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere. I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it. Confucius
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. Ursula K. Le Guin
Bill Nye quote: "Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right..."
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. Bill Nye
What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow? William Shakespeare
I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim, because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab. Terry Prachett
Keith Richards quote: "Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners."
Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners. Keith Richards
Herman Melville quote: "images far swifter than these sentences"
images far swifter than these sentences Herman Melville
You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. Terry Prachett
After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all it's awful perhapses, -those shudderings and temblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity! What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone, -whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with... Harriet Beecher Stowe
Isn't it possible that this midcentury moment enters the skin more lastingly than the vast shaping strategies of eminent leaders, generals steely in their sunglasses -- the mapped visions that pierce our dreams? Don DeLillo

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