God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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Jalaluddin Rumi
But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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Graeme Simsion
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
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George Saunders
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and...
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Raymond Carver
And, whoa! " He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way! " Mr. D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?"" Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine! "" My figurine."" In my...
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Rick Riordan
More Quotes By John Steinbeck
A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of...
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers...
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
