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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
If you watch punches, kicks, and moves where there is contact, Cody Rhodes is one of the best.
It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can. —Boldred
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul
I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.
I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.
She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.