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If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet. George Harrison
Albert Camus quote: "It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting."
It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting. Albert Camus
Alice Munro quote: "You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations."
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. Alice Munro
Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it. Better men than you, men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire. There is not a street you walk on, there is not a thread you wear, that was not made as this lantern was, by denying your philosophy of dirt and rats. You can make nothing. You can only destroy. You will destroy mankind, you... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation, the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry, as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye, in which we swam with terror and recognition. Stanley Kunitz
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. Tina Fey
Wally Lamb quote: "If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and..."
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. Wally Lamb
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. Giovanni Boccaccio
Dave Barry quote: "You should not confuse your career with your life."
You should not confuse your career with your life. Dave Barry
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? Henryk Sienkiewicz
The world of things entered your infant mind. To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind. For, once within, corporeal fact could find. A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt. Built there your little microcosm - which yet. Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned. Dead men can live there, and converse with stars: Equator speaks with pole, and night with day; Spirit dissolves the world's material bars -A... Julian Huxley
Jodi Picoult quote: "There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower..."
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. Jodi Picoult
Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, Seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! William Shakespeare
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. C. S. Lewis
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be..."
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

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