Ways Quotes (page 251)

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• celebration
• black
• life

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is. Queen Latifah

• life
• god
• thoughts

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. Cormac McCarthy

• way
• sees
• problems

The way we see the problem is the problem. Stephen Covey

• true
• difficult
• biggest thing

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things. Miyamoto Musashi

• life
• forgiveness
• death

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me. Katherine Dunn

• love
• good
• time

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way. J. D. Salinger

• life
• life is
• comedies

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. Oscar Wilde

• kindness
• experience
• refused

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. Flannery O'Connor

• solitude
• against
• spirit

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism. Thomas Merton

• lies
• only
• lied

The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie. Orson Scott Card

• trust
• acceptance
• words

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word. Paraphrased Thomas Jefferson

• thinking
• pretty
• guys

I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107 Meg Cabot

• death
• die
• end

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. Haruki Murakami

• life
• gift
• manly

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. Bob Marley

• real
• feeling
• self

I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable. Sylvia Plath