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Clive Barker quote: "Life is short. And pleasures few. And holed the ship. And..."
Life is short. And pleasures few. And holed the ship. And drowned the crew. But o! But o! How very bluethe sea is. Clive Barker
It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history. Erik Larson
Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs. William Shakespeare
Jodi Picoult quote: "Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there..."
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home Jodi Picoult
We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary. Louise Erdrich
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich... Gordon B. Hinckley
Erich Maria Remarque quote: "It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often..."
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. Erich Maria Remarque
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. Henry David Thoreau
J. K. Rowling quote: "What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking..."
What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life. J. K. Rowling
J. M. Barrie quote: "It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle..."
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? J. M. Barrie
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping. C. S. Lewis
Don DeLillo quote: "That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our..."
That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. Don DeLillo
When all is said and done, we are in the end absolutely dependent on the universe; and into sacrifices and surrenders of some sort, deliberately looked at and accepted, we are drawn and pressed as into our only permanent positions of repose. Now in those states of mind which fall short of religion, the surrender is submitted to as an imposition of necessity, and the sacrifice is undergone at the very best without complaint. In the religious life, on the contrary, surrender and sacrifice are... William James
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo James Joyce
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. J. K. Rowling

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