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We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then. Orson Scott Card
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive? Rumi
Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice? where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner. Dodie Smith
J. M. Barrie quote: "Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we..."
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. J. M. Barrie
Wally Lamb quote: "I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet."
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. Wally Lamb
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down. Virginia Woolf
For a moment, sincere human fury had burned through the training, touched a hot core of genuine rage. He felt shaken, but more whole, more truly himself, then he'd been for years. Bruce Sterling
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect. Wangari Maathai
Don’t become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done. Rhonda Byrne
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. Maya Angelou
Jim Wallis quote: "Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching..."
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. Jim Wallis
You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death. Gene Wolfe
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did... Ian Mcewan
Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon

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