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Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny. To find out if I might love.'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.'Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough. To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away. And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One... William Butler Yeats
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat. Augusten Burroughs
Harry S. Truman quote: "Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be..."
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all. Harry S. Truman
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk Frank McCourt
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism? free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; Thomas Jefferson
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too... J. D. Salinger
Oscar Wilde quote: "He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted..."
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. Oscar Wilde
Paul Hawken quote: "Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of..."
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. Paul Hawken
Margaret Atwood quote: "If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged."
If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. Margaret Atwood
All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American. Barack Obama
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact? T. S. Eliot
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know. Loren Eiseley
John Steinbeck quote: "An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without..."
An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams. John Steinbeck

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