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What If Quotes (page 68)

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper - memories cling to the printed page better than anything... Cornelia Funke
What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it. David Sedaris
If you could forget and forgive what happened."He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you. Leo Tolstoy
Lao Tzu quote: "If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to..."
If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed. Lao Tzu
If I were someone else, I’d go along with you all. But since I’m what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together? Fernando Pessoa
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion Twyla Tharp
What a risk, Reuben thought. I could easily hit him over the head and rob the church of its gold candlesticks. He wondered how often Jim had done this kind of thing, or why Jim's life was such a round of sacrifice and exhausting work, how it was Jim could ladle up soup and corned beef hash every day for people who so often let him down, or go through the same ritual every morning at the altar, as if it really was a miracle when he consecrated the bread and wine and gave out "the Body of... Anne Rice
What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart.... He turned the yam with a stick. Chinua Achebe
Cormac McCarthy quote: "If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?"
If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself? Cormac McCarthy
What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close. Henry Rollins
Federico Garcia Lorca quote: "If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's..."
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman. Federico Garcia Lorca
Wally Lamb quote: "what are out stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?"
what are out stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? Wally Lamb
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach. Logan Pearsall Smith
Simone Weil quote: "If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly..."
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. Simone Weil
If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. Dave Barry

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