What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
#quotes #lloyd-kaufman #christmas

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
#quotes #wynton-marsalis #black #culture

I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
#quotes #brad-paisley #writing #music

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
#quotes #david-petraeus #dream #happiness

Trust the tale, not the teller. ~David Knopfler
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #helping

Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
#proverbs #mother #language

It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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He that is rich will not be called a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
#quotes #lydia-davis #russell-edson #style #writing #stories

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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