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No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? George Orwell
Alain de Botton quote: "Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile..."
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. Alain de Botton
Stephen King quote: "I think the best stories always end up being about the people..."
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. Stephen King
When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore- he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroque master of baroque masters; this is the landing of a TRAGIC Marie de Medicis. Yet so receptive was the English ear to sheep-Wordsworth's perverse 'Enough of Art' that it is not any of these works of supreme art, these master-sonnets of English... Brigid Brophy
You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls. J. M. Barrie
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. Guy de Maupassant
But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read. C. S. Lewis
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold."
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Thomas Jefferson
...Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth... Neil Gaiman
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having..."
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. Georg C. Lichtenberg
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. Alexis de Tocqueville
Emilie Autumn quote: "Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide..."
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. Emilie Autumn
At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second... James Gould Cozzens
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. David Baldacci

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