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Charles Bukowski quote: "When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change."
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change. Charles Bukowski
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they..."
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do, their victims lie strewn around. Elizabeth Bowen
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions. Philip Pullman
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance. George Orwell
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek... W. Somerset Maugham
Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men may be coarsened and hardened into a brute by habit. Blood and power intoxicate; coarseness and depravity are developed; the mind and the heart are tolerant of the most abnormal things, till at last they come to relish them. The man and the citizen is lost for ever in the tyrant, and the return to human dignity, to repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Peter S. Beagle quote: "no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by..."
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. Peter S. Beagle
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away. J. D. Salinger
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry S. Truman
The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise. James Wilson
If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands. Corrie Ten Boom
Ram Dass quote: "In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become..."
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday? Ram Dass
Albert Einstein quote: "I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them."
I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them. Albert Einstein
Norman O. Brown quote: "Meaning is not in things but in between them."
Meaning is not in things but in between them. Norman O. Brown
None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them to strengths as we go forward with our lives. this quest may be a long one: in fact, it will be lifelong. It may be fraught with many mistakes, with falling down and getting back up again. And it will take much effort. But we must not sell ourselves short. We must make a little extra effort. We would... Gordon B. Hinckley

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