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The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant. David Foster Wallace
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman. Karl Kraus
So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in inanimate bodies. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly... Leo Tolstoy
Fannie Flagg quote: "There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half..."
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Fannie Flagg
Mark Helprin quote: "For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is..."
For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse. Mark Helprin
We would be outnumbered a couple hundred to two, by something worse than Erasers. I had no idea if the rest of the Flock would be able to help. It was pretty much a suicide mission. Again. "There is one bright side to this," said Fang. "Yeah? What's that?" The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? He grinned at me so unexpectedly that I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You loooove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he... James Patterson
Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment..."
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding. W. Somerset Maugham
Steven Spielberg quote: "Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going..."
Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her. Steven Spielberg
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was. Salman Rushdie
People in the courtroom let loose with their disgust, cursing us, d--ning us, we who had become less than human. Marranos. Pigs. As for me, I felt something rise in my throat: the horror of the world of men. Alice Hoffman
J. K. Rowling quote: "If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one..."
If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight. J. K. Rowling
One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard, as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth. Julio Cortazar
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. Michael Chabon

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