My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ~English Proverb
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~Will Durant
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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If you care about the people you work with then you work harder. ~Kristine Lilly
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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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
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