For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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Oscar Wilde
Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tastingtomatoes, apples and pears. <span style="margin:15px;...
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William Martin
Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful.. a witch. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with....
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Joss Whedon
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Jodi Picoult
Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with...
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Nicholas Sparks
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
-“Forced love hurts God.”
-“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?”-“ At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”- “I...
