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Reynolds Price quote: "Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise..."
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed Reynolds Price
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. Edward Said
I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now. C. S. Lewis
There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them. Connie Willis
Stephen King quote: "Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
Do any men grow up or do they only come of age? Stephen King
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster. Robert A. Heinlein
The words of the rose to the rose floated up in his mind: “No gardener has died, comma, within rosaceous memory.” He sang a little song, he drank his bottle of stout, he dashed away a tear, he made himself comfortable. So it goes in the world. Samuel Beckett
if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up. Rush Limbaugh
Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate. Ernest Hemingway
Barbara Castle quote: "AND i WAS FED UP Wit. H NOt HAVi. NG (Pi. NK POl. KA DOT)..."
AND i WAS FED UP Wit. H NOt HAVi. NG (Pi. NK POl. KA DOT) FUll. Y FASHi. ONED Gl. AMOUR St. Ol. Ki. NGS! Barbara Castle
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it... Jeanette Winterson
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this. Alice Munro
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so..."
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable? Kurt Vonnegut
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men. Daniel Webster
So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood? Charlotte Bronte

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