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Cormac McCarthy quote: "What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo? Cormac McCarthy
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go..."
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. Benjamin Disraeli
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it. Vaclav Havel
...and if somehow my conduct ain't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints.. From 'Tommy Rudyard Kipling
Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men... Gilbert K. Chesterton
For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs. Thomas Merton
I know what my heart is like. Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge. Holding a little pool. Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Maxwell Maltz quote: "Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a..."
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. Maxwell Maltz
Paulo Coelho quote: "If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day."
If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day. Paulo Coelho
Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects. Philip Stanhope
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Mind your P's and Q's."
Mind your P's and Q's. J. R. R. Tolkien
The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one — at least, no male person — ever consulted works of reference except in search of pornography. As soon as you approached she pierced you through and through with a flash of her pince-nez and let you know that your dirty secret was no secret from HER. After all, all works of reference are pornographical, except perhaps Whitaker’s Almanack. You can... George Orwell
Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being... Haruki Murakami
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. Alan Moore
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. Ludwig van Beethoven

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