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Chuck Palahniuk quote: "To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you..."
To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses. Chuck Palahniuk
It had never occured to me that thinking and music are so much alike. In fact, you can say music is another way of thinking or maybe thinking is another kind of music. Ursula K. Le Guin
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes. Barbara Kingsolver
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Benjamin Disraeli
Anna Sewell quote: "If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can..."
If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way. Anna Sewell
Margaret Cho quote: "Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable..."
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever. Margaret Cho
I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell... J. D. Salinger
Henry James quote: "Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other..."
Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. Henry James
Mark Haddon quote: "She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog."
She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog. Mark Haddon
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined. Deepak Chopra
George Eliot quote: "She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan,..."
She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. George Eliot
This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like—not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And... David Sedaris
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. J. D. Salinger
Tom Waits quote: "but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's..."
but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. Tom Waits
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321. Anthony Burgess

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