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People "died" all the time.... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions - decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out... you always knew when you made a decision against life.... The door clicked and you were safe inside - safe and dead. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ~Arnold H. Glasow
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. ~Raymond Chandler, 1946
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. ~Elizabeth Wilson
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Harper Lee
Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Carrie Latet
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. ~La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? ~John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1815
It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx
Confucious say: "Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk." ~Author Unknown Confucius say: "Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient." ~Author Unknown
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~Henry David Thoreau
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ~John Locke
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. ~John Gay
The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. ~William Gass, "Habitations of the Word," Kenyon Review, October 1984
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore
