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But you said so yourself, the poor lass will die of it... Do you really want her to die? 'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life. Emile Zola
i began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Walter Isaacson
Satellites can see your thoughts, but not through rock,' is like something they might say. In John William's case, it was conscious hyperbole and therefore commentary. At one level, it was reefer-inspired. It was partly for fun. It was other things, too-but not derangement. I give no credence to the interpretation, and I knew him better than anybody. David Guterson
And once again I am I will not say alone, no, that's not like me, but, how shall I say, I don't know, restored to myself, no, I never left myself, free, yes, I don't know what that means but it's the word I mean to use, free to do what, to do nothing, to know, but what, the laws of the mind perhaps, of my mind, that for example water rises in proportion as it drowns you and that you would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words... Samuel Beckett
Nothing moves fast in Texas except the windmills. And the hawk that rises up with a clatter of wings.(Nothing more startling there than sudden motion, Everything is so still.) May Sarton
Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus. Dan Brown
George Orwell quote: "Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just..."
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? George Orwell
You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of. Cory Doctorow
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave. Larry McMurtry
Colin Powell quote: "The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional..."
The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us. Colin Powell
Theodor Adorno quote: "The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully..."
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Theodor Adorno
Taylor Swift quote: "the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down,..."
the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight. Taylor Swift
Dogen Zenji quote: "Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to..."
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. Dogen Zenji
I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along. I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage. Ken Kesey
I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic: the philosopher believes not according to evidence, but according to his own temperament; and his thinking merely serves to make reasonable what his instinct regards as true. W. Somerset Maugham

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