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Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "I tried to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so..."
I tried to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Maxine Hong Kingston
John Knowles quote: "Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try..."
Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself? John Knowles
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it?..."
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand. Kurt Vonnegut
During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope. Lance Armstrong
The two waiters inside the cafe knew that theo ld man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.Last week he tried to commit suicide," one waiter said.Why?"He was in despair."What about?"Nothing."How do you know it was nothing."He has plenty of money. Ernest Hemingway
Yes, Baby...I've been drinkin'...I shouldn't come by I know...but I found myself in trouble, darlin'...and I have no place else to go. Honey I'm guilty..yes I'm guilty...and I'll be guilty for the rest of my life. How come I never do, what I'm supposed to do. Nothin' I try to do ever turns out right. You know how it is with me baby, I just can't stand myself...it takes a whole lotta medicine, darlin'...for me to pretend that I'm somebody else. Randy Newman
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.-Atticus Finch Harper Lee
Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track. Haruki Murakami
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out. Anne Sexton
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Cormac McCarthy
[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art...the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject of any instruction we wish to give...[the second], in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher... Plato
Steve Martin quote: "She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare..."
She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care. Steve Martin
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very..."
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition. Madeleine L'Engle
Joseph Campbell quote: "Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better..."
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. Joseph Campbell
Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out. Audre Lorde

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