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Earl Nightingale quote: "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take..."
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
Bob Dylan quote: "You need something to open up a new door, to show you..."
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more Bob Dylan
Tom Stoppard quote: "We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity..."
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Tom Stoppard
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. Graham Greene
Humphrey Bogart quote: "the problems of three little people in a big world don't add..."
the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much Humphrey Bogart
During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years. Walker Percy
Samuel Johnson quote: "Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you..."
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? Samuel Johnson
J. P. Donleavy quote: "Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated..."
Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady. J. P. Donleavy
We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head J. D. Salinger
I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused. Keith Richards
Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity. Mercedes Lackey
I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity! Louisa May Alcott
Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once... Laurell K. Hamilton
Roddy Doyle quote: "It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more..."
It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. Roddy Doyle
I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice. Diana Wynne Jones

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