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> [“You amuse me. You who spent your life waiting for miracles and instead found us." "With all due respect, you can shove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-strand/you-amuse-me-you-who-spent-your-life-waiting-for-miracles-and-instead/)

[Jeff Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-strand/)

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> [Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/theologians-talk-about-a-prevenient-grace-that-precedes-grace-itself/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/merlin-franco/you-see-writers-traveling-to-southeast-asia-visit-indigenous/)

[Merlin Franco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/merlin-franco/)

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> [“Hang on.” Molly shrugs off her army jacket and hangs it on the black iron coatrack in the corner. “What about that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baker-kline/hang-on-molly-shrugs-off-her-army-jacket-and-hangs-it-on-the-black/)

[Christina Baker Kline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-baker-kline/)

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> [“My father played the melodion Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east; And they danced to his music.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/my-father-played-the-melodion-outside-at-our-gate-there-were-stars-in/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

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> [“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/when-i-look-at-this-age-with-the-eye-of-a-distant-future-i-find/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [“We had to be up early in the morning. We had a goat race to go to... We asked the old man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-mayle/we-had-to-be-up-early-in-the-morning-we-had-a-goat-race-to-go-to-we/)

[Peter Mayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-mayle/)

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> [“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/the-marks-humans-leave-are-too-often-scars-you-build-a-hideous-2/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/do-you-know-how-long-a-year-takes-when-it-s-going-away-dunbar/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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> [“The child was left alone to die in the hallway. Here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-helprin/the-child-was-left-alone-to-die-in-the-hallway-here-in-the-dawn-was/)

[Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-helprin/)

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> [“Marya put down her fork. “Why are you doing this, Koschei? I have had lovers before. You have, too. Remember Marina? The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/marya-put-down-her-fork-why-are-you-doing-this-koschei-i-have-had/)

[Catherynne M. Valente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherynne-m-valente/)

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> [Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-moore/like-looking-down-on-a-lubricious-chess-set-isn-t-it-the-king-moves/)

[Christopher Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-moore/)

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> [“Ah, you pitiful, pitiful creatures! Beautiful family! Nobler far than stupid men..." he cried softly to himself. What was he doing here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eiji-yoshikawa/ah-you-pitiful-pitiful-creatures-beautiful-family-nobler-far-than/)

[Eiji Yoshikawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eiji-yoshikawa/)

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> [Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/bishop-on-at-the-fishhouses-at-the-last-minute-after-i-d-had-a-chance-2/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

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> [“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/the-naked-man-had-lost-hope-now-he-would-never-be-able-to-return-to/)

[Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/)

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> [“My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/my-old-man-s-a-white-old-man-and-my-old-mother-s-black-if-ever-i/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [“The older I grow the less Christ's teaching says to me. I am sometimes very conscious that I am following the path…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/the-older-i-grow-the-less-christ-s-teaching-says-to-me-i-am-sometimes/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

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> [This is not the only painting he did of an old man whom he called God. Since he painted these some 500…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babloo/this-is-not-the-only-painting-he-did-of-an-old-man-whom-he-called-god/)

[Babloo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babloo/)

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> [“I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-sheffield/i-kept-thinking-of-an-old-robert-mitchum-cowboy-movie-where-he-goes/)

[Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-sheffield/)

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> [“He married and made a home. He went endlessly from house to house and spoke the mission and the truth. The hopeless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/he-married-and-made-a-home-he-went-endlessly-from-house-to-house-and/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/writing-from-a-teen-s-perspective-is-easy-as-pie-at-least-i-ve/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [Saturday noon, An Old Man with a Hot Girl entered a Jewellery shop and chose a Ring worth $200000 for the Girl.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/saturday-noon-an-old-man-with-a-hot-girl-entered-a-jewellery-shop-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liu-cixin/the-universe-is-a-dark-forest-every-civilization-is-an-armed-hunter-2/)

[Liu Cixin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liu-cixin/)

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> [“The knights nodded with exaggerated casualness, showing respect for the wizard but not fear. Or so they thought. The fear came in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-a-applegate-2/the-knights-nodded-with-exaggerated-casualness-showing-respect-for/)

[K.A. Applegate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-a-applegate-2/)

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> [“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/inevitably-came-the-time-when-he-angrily-repudiated-his-former/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-edward-williams/and-yet-in-the-weakest-of-men-in-moments-when-they-are-alone-and/)

[John Edward Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-edward-williams/)

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> [“I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-just-held-her-hand-and-tried-to-imagine-the-world-without-us-and-2/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“Can you read this word, Peter?' ...'It says GOD.' 'Yes, that's right. Now write it backward and see what you find.' ...'DOG!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/can-you-read-this-word-peter-it-says-god-yes-that-s-right-now-write/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“strength of this affection. And it is not hard to understand. The baby represented everything sacred to his father's heart: the promises…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/strength-of-this-affection-and-it-is-not-hard-to-understand-the-baby/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“The Severed Nose. What would you do if you came home one evening and found a severed nose lying on a plate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-strand/the-severed-nose-what-would-you-do-if-you-came-home-one-evening-and/)

[Jeff Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-strand/)

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> [“Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/atro-had-once-explained-to-him-how-this-was-managed-how-the-sergeants/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“Wherever you go, Provincetown will always take you back, at whatever age and in whatever condition. Because time moves somewhat differently there,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/wherever-you-go-provincetown-will-always-take-you-back-at-whatever/)

[Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/)

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> [“The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-lee/the-world-of-publishing-is-in-crisis-it-s-no-coincidence-that-the/)

[Stewart Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-lee/)

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> [Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilad-atzmon/greenspan-advised-the-american-people-to-buy-he-repeated-the-old/)

[Gilad Atzmon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilad-atzmon/)

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> [“The real universe is just that black. The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liu-cixin/the-real-universe-is-just-that-black-the-universe-is-a-dark-forest/)

[Liu Cixin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liu-cixin/)

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> [“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-k-jerome/you-can-never-rouse-harris-there-is-no-poetry-about-harris-no-wild/)

[Jerome K. Jerome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-k-jerome/)

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> [Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/certain-old-men-prefer-to-rise-at-dawn-taking-a-cold-bath-and-a-long/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [“Get Comfortable Not Knowing There once was a village that had among its people a very wise old man. The villagers trusted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-carlson/get-comfortable-not-knowing-there-once-was-a-village-that-had-among/)

[Richard Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-carlson/)

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> [“Alexis grabbed his arm. "Tom Jones? Wow, I totally love Tom Jones. He's like quintessential Vegas—over the top and indecent fun. Let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-mccarthy/alexis-grabbed-his-arm-tom-jones-wow-i-totally-love-tom-jones-he-s/)

[Erin McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-mccarthy/)

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> [“Pray your words, old man.” The priest licked his lips and glanced fearfully at the crowd of savages around them. Perhaps it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/pray-your-words-old-man-the-priest-licked-his-lips-and-glanced/)

[Catherine Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-anderson/)

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                        "text": "“You amuse me. You who spent your life waiting for miracles and instead found us.\" \"With all due respect, you can shove your amusement where the sun don't shine, mister.\" If he ever did write a book about his adventures in the forest, he'd give himself a better response. It wasn't like Mindy, Barbara, Tina, or Tommy could hear him. \"And that is why you amuse me, Lee Burgundy. You are decrepit, your heart is weak, and your body is frail, and yet you stand here ready to fight me to protect the others. Why?\" \"It's the right thing to do.\" \"There is no right or wrong, old man. There is only what brings us pleasure.”",
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                        "text": "Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.",
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                        "text": "“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise is a decisive moment in every author’s life. Equate it to a photographer meeting his first old man with a wrinkled face or the old lady with heavy earrings dangling from her earlobes.”",
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                        "text": "“Hang on.” Molly shrugs off her army jacket and hangs it on the black iron coatrack in the corner. “What about that cup of tea?” “No time,” Vivian calls over her shoulder. “I’m old, you know. Could drop dead any minute. We’ve got to get going!” “Really? No tea?” Molly grumbles, following behind her. A curious thing is happening. The stories that Vivian began to tell only with prodding, in dutiful answer to specific questions, are spilling forth unprompted, one after another, so many that even Vivian seems surprised. “‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”",
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                        "text": "“My father played the melodion Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east; And they danced to his music. Across the wild bogs his melodion called To Lennons and Callans. As I pulled on my trousers in a hurry I knew some strange thing had happened. Outside in the cow-house my mother Made the music of milking; The light of her stable-lamp was a star And the frost of Bethlehem made it twinkle. A water-hen screeched in the bog, Mass-going feet Crunched the wafer-ice on the pot-holes, Somebody wistfully twisted the bellows wheel. My child poet picked out the letters On the grey stone, In silver the wonder of a Christmas townland, The winking glitter of a frosty dawn. Cassiopeia was over Cassidy's hanging hill, I looked and three whin bushes rode across The horizon - the Three Wise Kings. An old man passing said: \"Can't he make it talk\" - The melodion, I hid in the doorway And tightened the belt of my box-pleated coat. I nicked six nicks on the door-post With my penknife's big blade - There was a little one for cutting tobacco. And I was six Christmases of age. My father played the melodion, My mother milked the cows, And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned On the Virgin Mary's blouse”",
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                        "text": "“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of the present day as his peculiar virtue and sickness called \"the historical sense.\" It is a tendency to something quite new and foreign in history: if this embryo were given several centuries and more, there might finally evolve out of it a marvellous plant, with a smell equally marvellous, on account of which our old earth might be more pleasant to live in than it has been hitherto. We moderns are just beginning to form the chain of a very powerful, future sentiment, link by link, we hardly know what we are doing. It almost seems to us as if it were not the question of a new sentiment, but of the decline of all old sentiments: the historical sense is still something so poor and cold, and many are attacked by it as by a frost, and are made poorer and colder by it. To others it appears as the indication of stealthily approaching age, and our planet is regarded by them as a melancholy invalid, who, in order to forget his present condition, writes the history of his youth. In fact, this is one aspect of the new sentiment He who knows how to regard the history of man in its entirety as his own history, feels in the immense generalisation all the grief of the invalid who thinks of health, of the old man who thinks of the dream of his youth, of the lover who is robbed of his beloved, of the martyr whose ideal is destroyed, of the hero on the evening of the indecisive battle which has brought him wounds and the loss of a friend. But to bear this immense sum of grief of all kinds, to be able to bear it, and yet still be the hero who at the commencement of a second day of battle greets the dawn and his happiness, as one who has an horizon of centuries before and behind him, as the heir of all nobility, of all past intellect, and the obligatory heir (as the noblest) of all the old nobles; while at the same time the first of a new nobility, the equal of which has never been seen nor even dreamt of: to take all this upon his soul, the oldest, the newest, the losses, hopes, conquests, and victories of mankind: to have all this at last in one soul, and to comprise it in one feeling: this would necessarily furnish a happiness which man has not hitherto known, a God's happiness, full of power and love, full of tears and laughter, a happiness which, like the sun in the evening, continually gives of its inexhaustible riches and empties into the sea, and like the sun, too, feels itself richest when even the poorest fisherman rows with golden oars! This divine feeling might then be called humanity!”",
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                        "text": "“We had to be up early in the morning. We had a goat race to go to... We asked the old man confident in the knowledge that he, like every Frenchman, would be an expert. \"The goats who make the most droppings before the race are likely to do well. An empty goat is faster than a full goat. C'est logique.”",
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                        "text": "“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now,” but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. (Okay, maybe I’m not such a shitty writer. But I can’t pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.) We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it’s silly and useless – epically useless in my current state – but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. People will say it’s sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it’s not sad, Van Houten. It’s triumphant. It’s heroic. Isn’t that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.”",
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                        "text": "“Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.' 'Old?' asked Clevinger with surprise. 'What are you talking about?' 'Old.' 'I'm not old.' 'You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?' Dunbar was almost angry when he finished. 'Well, maybe it is true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?' 'I do,' Dunbar told him. 'Why?' Clevinger asked. 'What else is there?”",
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                        "text": "“The child was left alone to die in the hallway. Here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with Peter. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be. The old man said, \"Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of a great city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets up, or the position of the electron. Even electrons, supposedly the paragons of unpredictability, do exactly as they are told. Of this, one is certain. And yet, there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he will dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from Borough Hall, and the snowflake will fall as it will. How can this be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined, it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given - so we track it, in linear fashion piece by piece. Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was, is. Everything that ever will be, is. In all possible combinations. Though we imagine that it is in motion and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful. So any event is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible. And, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.”",
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                        "text": "“Marya put down her fork. “Why are you doing this, Koschei? I have had lovers before. You have, too. Remember Marina? The rusalka? She and I swam together every morning. We raced the salmon. You called us your little sharks.” The Tsar of Life held his knife so tightly Marya could see his knucklebones bulging. “Were any of them called Ivan? Were any of them human boys all sticky with their own innocence? I know you. I know you because you are like me, as much like me as two spoons nested in each other.” Her husband leaned close to her, the candlelight sparking in his dark, shaggy hair. “When you steal them, they mean so much more, Marousha. Trust me. I know. What did I do wrong? Was I boring? Did I ignore you? Did I not give you enough pretty dresses? Enough emeralds? I’m sure I have more, somewhere.” Marya lifted her hand and laid it on her husband’s cheek. With a blinking quickness, she drove her nails deep into his face. “Don’t you dare speak to me like that. I have worn nothing but blood and death for years. I have fought all your battles for you, just as you asked me. I have learned all the tricks you said I must learn. I have learned not to cry when I strangle a man. I have learned to lay my finger aside my nose and disappear. I have learned to watch everything die. I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too. And if I have watched all my soldiers die in front of me, if I have only been saved by my rifle and my own hands, if I have drunk more blood than water for weeks, then I take the human boy who stumbled into my tent and hold him between my legs until I stop screaming, you will not punish me for it. Are we not chyerti? Are we not devils? I will not even hear your punishment, old man.”",
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                        "text": "Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?\" \"Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.",
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                        "text": "“Ah, you pitiful, pitiful creatures! Beautiful family! Nobler far than stupid men...\" he cried softly to himself. What was he doing here with his arrow? Cornering these creatures? Armor--an armor to brag about! Save his dignity before that armor-maker because of a promise? Foolish...foolish! If the old man jeered at him, why should it matter anymore; a common suit of armor would do as well! Armor did not make a man, nor did it signify valor. \"Dumb creatures that you are, how magnificent! Sorrow, love--parental love incarnate! Were I that fox--what if Tokiko and Shigemori were trapped like this? Even the beast can rise above itself--could I as much?”",
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                        "text": "Bishop on \"At the Fishhouses\"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of \"At the Fishhouses\" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream",
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                        "text": "“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of this shaft, and he would go mad there drinking blood and eating human flesh, without ever being able to die. Up there, against the sky, there were good angels with ropes, and bad angels with grenades and rifles, and a big old man with a white beard who waved his arms but could not save him.”",
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                        "text": "“My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now i wish her well My old man died in a fine big house My Ma died in a shack. I wonder were i'm going to die, Being neither white nor black?”",
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                        "text": "“The older I grow the less Christ's teaching says to me. I am sometimes very conscious that I am following the path of a leader who died when He was less than half as old as I am now. I see and feel things He never saw or felt. I know things He seems never to have known. Everybody wants a Christ for himself and those who think like him. Very well, am I at fault for wanting a Christ who will show me how to be an old man? All Christ's teaching is put forward with the dogmatism, the certainty, and the strength of youth: I need something that takes account of the accretion of experience, the sense of paradox and ambiguity that comes with years!”",
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                        "text": "This is not the only painting he did of an old man whom he called God. Since he painted these some 500 years ago, they have become very famous. Nowadays reproductions of these paintings are in many books. What might a child think who sees these paintings? This is just one reason why it is so important for us to tell you the truth about God. Whatever picture you see is not God. Whatever picture that might pop into your mind is not God. God, Who created humans, angels, and jinn is not like any of them. God is not like the soul, fire, air, or bodies. God is not light. He is not even a strong light. God created very strong lights which we cannot look at and God is not like them. Whatever a person imagines in his mind God is different than that thing he imagined. When we say imagine we do not mean the true things you believe in your mind, or the true things that you know with your mind. We mean that any image that comes to the mind is not God.",
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                        "text": "“I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born and finds the house falling apart and an old man living in it by himself. \"Lonely place,\" Robert Mitchum says. The old man says, \"Nothing wrong with a lonely place as long as it's private. That's why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain't private.\" That was always my most intense fear about getting married: When everything sucked and I was by myself, I thought, Well, at least I don't have another miserable person to worry about. I figured if you gave up your private place and it still turns out to be lonely, you're just screwed. ”",
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                        "text": "“He married and made a home. He went endlessly from house to house and spoke the mission and the truth. The hopeless suffering of his people made in him a madness, a wild and evil feeling of destruction. At times he drank strong liquor and beat his head against the floor. In his heart there was a savage violence, and once he grasped the poker from the hearth and struck down his wife. She took Hamilton, Karl Marx, William, and Portia with her to her father's home. He wrestled in his spirit and fought down the evil blackness. But Daisy did not come back. And eight years later when she died his sons were not children anymore and they did not return to him. He was left an old man in an empty house.”",
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                        "text": "Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.",
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                        "text": "Saturday noon, An Old Man with a Hot Girl entered a Jewellery shop and chose a Ring worth $200000 for the Girl. Giving cheque, He said he'd collect the Ring on Monday aftr the Cheque is cleard. On Monday, Jeweller called up the old man. There's no Money in ur Account! Old Man:I Know, but can You imägine the Weekend I had...",
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                        "text": "“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them.”",
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                        "text": "“The knights nodded with exaggerated casualness, showing respect for the wizard but not fear. Or so they thought. The fear came in the way they parted for the old man, took a half step back without really thinking about it. That's one of the things you learn to do when you study acting. You watch the nonverbal cues. That's what gives a performance depth. The knights were all like, \"Hey, Merlin, what's up?\" But get past the easy words and bluff tone and you saw faces drawn back, bodies turned at an angle to protect the vitals, an unconscious cringe.”",
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                        "text": "“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the Palestinian blend of Marshal Petaín and Papa Doc.' But the main problem, alas, remained the same. In Edward's moral universe, Arafat could at last be named as a thug and a practitioner of corruption and extortion. But he could only be identified as such to the extent that he was now and at last aligned with an American design. Thus the only truly unpardonable thing about 'The Chairman' was his readiness to appear on the White House lawn with Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton in 1993. I have real knowledge and memory of this, because George Stephanopoulos—whose father's Orthodox church in Ohio and New York had kept him in touch with what was still a predominantly Christian Arab-American opinion—called me more than once from the White House to help beseech Edward to show up at the event. 'The feedback we get from Arab-American voters is this: If it's such a great idea, why isn't Said signing off on it?' When I called him, Edward was grudging and crabby. 'The old man [Arafat] has no right to sign away land.' Really? Then what had the Algiers deal been all about? How could two states come into being without mutual concessions on territory?”",
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                        "text": "“And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; and in the cruelest of men flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men moments of simplicity and grace. I remember Marcus Aemilius Lepidus at Messina, an old man stripped of his title, whom I made publicly to ask forgiveness for his crimes and beg for his life; after he had done so in front of the troops he had once commanded, he looked at me for a long moment without shame or regret or fear, and smiled, and turned from me and strode erectly toward his obscurity. And at Actium, I remember Marcus Antonius at the prow of his ship looking at Cleopatra as her own fleet departed leaving him to certain defeat, knowing at that moment that she had never loved him; and yet upon his face was an expression almost womanly in its wise affection and forgiveness. And I remember Cicero , when at last he knew that his foolish intrigues had failed, and when in secret I informed him that his life was in danger. He smiled as if there had been no strife between us and said, \"Do not trouble yourself. I am an old man. Whatever mistakes I have made, I have loved my country.\" I am told that he offered his neck to his executioner with that same grace.”",
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                        "text": "“I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar (...) What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”",
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                        "text": "“Can you read this word, Peter?' ...'It says GOD.' 'Yes, that's right. Now write it backward and see what you find.' ...'DOG! Mamma! It says DOG!' 'Yes. It says dog.' The sadness in her voice quenched Peter's excitement at once. His mother pointed from GOD to DOG. 'These are the two natures of man,' she said. 'Never forget them... Our preachers say that our natures are partly of God and partly of Old Man Splitfoot... But there are few devils outside of made-up stories, Pete -- most bad people are more like dogs than devils. Dogs are friendly and stupid, and that's the way most men and women are when they are drunk. When dogs are excited and confused, they may bite; when men are excited and confused, they may fight. Dogs are great pets because they are loyal, but if a pet is all a man is, he is a bad man, I think. Dogs can be brave, but they may also be cowards that will howl in the dark or run away with their tails between their legs. A dog is just as eager to lick the hand of a bad master as he is to lick the hand of a good one, because dogs don't know the difference between good and bad.”",
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                        "text": "“strength of this affection. And it is not hard to understand. The baby represented everything sacred to his father's heart: the promises of God, the covenants, the hopes of the years and the long messianic dream. As he watched him grow from babyhood to young manhood the heart of the old man was knit closer and closer with the life of his son, till at last the relationship bordered upon the perilous. It was then that God stepped in to save both father and son from the consequences of an uncleansed love. \"Take now thy son,\" said God to Abraham, \"thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will”",
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                        "text": "“The Severed Nose. What would you do if you came home one evening and found a severed nose lying on a plate on your dining room table?   Disposal. Frank, a self-proclaimed scumbag, is hired to murder an old man...but the old bastard just won't DIE!!!   Elrod McBugle on the Loose. A comedy for kids (and adults who were warped as kids).   Out of Whack. A coming-of-age comedy about love, friendship, and the realization that trying to yank somebody's panties off in a passionate manner can only lead to wedgies.   How to Rescue a Dead Princess. A ridiculous spoof of fantasy novels. Lots and lots and lots of jokes, but I'm willing to admit that it perhaps tries a bit too”",
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                        "text": "“Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains... and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. \"You call that organization?\" he had inquired. \"You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency--a kind of seventh-millennium steam engine! With such a rigid and fragile structure what could be done that was worth doing?\" This had given Atro a chance to argue the worth of warfare as the breeder of courage and manliness and weeder-out of the unfit, but the very line of his argument had forced him to concede the effectiveness of guerrillas, organized from below, self-disciplined. \"But that only works when the people think they're fighting for something of their own--you know, their homes, or some notion or other,\" the old man had said. Shevek had dropped the argument. He now continued it, in the darkening basement among the stacked crates of unlabeled chemicals. He explained to Atro that he now understood why the Army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so.”",
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                        "text": "“Wherever you go, Provincetown will always take you back, at whatever age and in whatever condition. Because time moves somewhat differently there, it is possible to return after ten years or more and run into an acquaintance, on Commercial or at the A&P, who will ask mildly, as if he’d seen you the day before yesterday, what you’ve been doing with yourself. The streets of Provincetown are not in any way threatening, at least not to those with an appetite for the full range of human passions. If you grow deaf and blind and lame in Provincetown, some younger person with a civic conscience will wheel you wherever you need to go; if you die there, the marshes and dunes are ready to receive your ashes. While you’re alive and healthy, for as long as it lasts, the golden hands of the clock tower at Town Hall will note each hour with an electric bell as we below, on our purchase of land, buy or sell, paint or write or fish for bass, or trade gossip on the post office steps. The old bayfront houses will go on dreaming, at least until the emptiness between their boards proves more durable than the boards themselves. The sands will continue their slow devouring of the forests that were the Pilgrims’ first sight of North America, where man, as Fitzgerald put it, “must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” The ghost of Dorothy Bradford will walk the ocean floor off Herring Cove, draped in seaweed, surrounded by the fleeting silver lights of fish, and the ghost of Guglielmo Marconi will tap out his messages to those even longer dead than he. The whales will breach and loll in their offshore world, dive deep into black canyons, and swim south when the time comes. Herons will browse the tidal pools; crabs with blue claws tipped in scarlet will scramble sideways over their own shadows. At sunset the dunes will take on their pink-orange light, and just after sunset the boats will go luminous in the harbor. Ashes of the dead, bits of their bones, will mingle with the sand in the salt marsh, and wind and water will further disperse the scraps of wood, shell, and rope I’ve used for Billy’s various memorials. After dark the raccoons and opossums will start on their rounds; the skunks will rouse from their burrows and head into town. In summer music will rise up. The old man with the portable organ will play for passing change in front of the public library. People in finery will sing the anthems of vanished goddesses; people who are still trying to live by fishing will pump quarters into jukeboxes that play the songs of their high school days. As night progresses, people in diminishing numbers will wander the streets (where whaling captains and their wives once promenaded, where O’Neill strode in drunken furies, where Radio Girl—who knows where she is now?—announced the news), hoping for surprises or just hoping for what the night can be counted on to provide, always, in any weather: the smell of water and its sound; the little houses standing square against immensities of ocean and sky; and the shapes of gulls gliding overhead, white as bone china, searching from their high silence for whatever they might be able to eat down there among the dunes and marshes, the black rooftops, the little lights tossing on the water as the tides move out or in.”",
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                        "text": "“The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one of the world's most successful writers... Dan Brown. Now Dan Brown is not a good writer, The Da Vinci Code is not literature. Dan Brown writes sentences like \"The famous man looked at the red cup.\" ...and it's only to be hoped that Dan Brown never gets a job where he's required to break bad news. \"Doctor is he going to be alright?\" \"The seventy five year old man died a painful death on the large green table... it was sad\".”",
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                        "text": "Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was correct, we are all having to 'pay later'... we may even never stop paying.",
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                        "text": "“The real universe is just that black. The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life — another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod — there's only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It's the explanation for the Fermi Paradox. But in this dark forest, there's a stupid child called humanity, who has built a bonfire and is standing beside it shouting, 'Here I am! Here I am!”",
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                        "text": "“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never \"weeps, he knows not why.\" If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop. If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say: \"Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses held by seaweed?\" Harris would take you by the arm, and say: \"I know what it is, old man; you've got a chill. Now you come along with me. I know a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted- put you right in less than no time.\" Harris always does know a place round the corner where you can get something brilliant in the drinking line. I believe that if you met Harris up in Paradise (supposing such a thing likely), he would immediately greet you with: \"So glad you've come, old fellow; I've found a nice place round the corner here, where you can get some really first-class nectar.”",
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                        "text": "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.",
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                        "text": "“Get Comfortable Not Knowing There once was a village that had among its people a very wise old man. The villagers trusted this man to provide them answers to their questions and concerns. One day, a farmer from the village went to the wise man and said in a frantic tone, “Wise man, help me. A horrible thing has happened. My ox has died and I have no animal to help me plow my field! Isn’t this the worst thing that could have possibly happened?” The wise old man replied, “Maybe so, maybe not.” The man hurried back to the village and reported to his neighbors that the wise man had gone mad. Surely this was the worst thing that could have happened. Why couldn’t he see this? The very next day, however, a strong, young horse was seen near the man’s farm. Because the man had no ox to rely on, he had the idea to catch the horse to replace his ox—and he did. How joyful the farmer was. Plowing the field had never been easier. He went back to the wise man to apologize. “You were right, wise man. Losing my ox wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened. It was a blessing in disguise! I never would have captured my new horse had that not happened. You must agree that this is the best thing that could have happened.” The wise man replied once again, “Maybe so, maybe not.” Not again, thought the farmer. Surely the wise man had gone mad now. But, once again, the farmer did not know what was to happen. A few days later the farmer’s son was riding the horse and was thrown off. He broke his leg and would not be able to help with the crop. Oh no, thought the man. Now we will starve to death. Once again, the farmer went to the wise man. This time he said, “How did you know that capturing my horse was not a good thing? You were right again. My son is injured and won’t be able to help with the crop. This time I’m sure that this is the worst thing that could have possibly happened. You must agree this time.” But, just as he had done before, the wise man calmly looked at the farmer and in a compassionate tone replied once again, “Maybe so, maybe not.” Enraged that the wise man could be so ignorant, the farmer stormed back to the village. The next day troops arrived to take every able-bodied man to the war that had just broken out. The farmer’s son was the only young man in the village who didn’t have to go. He would live, while the others would surely die. The moral of this story provides a powerful lesson. The truth is, we don’t know what’s going to happen—we just think we do. Often we make a big deal out of something. We blow up scenarios in our minds about all the terrible things that are going to happen. Most of the time we are wrong. If we keep our cool and stay open to possibilities, we can be reasonably certain that, eventually, all will be well. Remember: maybe so, maybe not.”",
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                        "text": "“Alexis grabbed his arm. \"Tom Jones? Wow, I totally love Tom Jones. He's like quintessential Vegas—over the top and indecent fun. Let me just go grab a pair of underwear to throw at him and we'll be all set.\" Over his undead body. If anyone was getting her underwear tossed in his face, it was going to be him. \"I don't think so, Ball Buster. You're not giving your panties to an old man.\" \"Oh, and you're so young, Garlic?\" \"Garlic?\" What the hell was that? \"Yep. Now we have pet names for each other, isn't that adorable? You're Garlic and I'm Ball Buster. Now everyone will believe we're a real couple.”",
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                        "text": "“Pray your words, old man.” The priest licked his lips and glanced fearfully at the crowd of savages around them. Perhaps it was the stark contrast of black robes against pallid flesh, but Loretta thought he was losing color at an alarming rate. Indeed, he looked as if he might faint. “Say the God words, old man!” Hunter snarled again. “Don’t you dare bully him,” Loretta hissed. “He’s a man of God, Hunter! You don’t roar at a man of God.” “It’s qu-quite all right, child, quite all right.” The priest, his face dripping sweat, made haste to open his Bible. “Merciful Father,” he muttered, clearly praying for deliverance. With a strangled cough, he began leafing through pages, turning slightly so the light from the fire was thrown across the small print. “I beg your forgiveness. I don’t usually need to use the book--” He coughed again and waved away smoke. “For some reason, the words have fled my mind. Ah, yes, here we are.” Infuriated, Loretta jerked her arm from Hunter’s grasp. “Father, there’s absolutely nothing to be afraid of, I assure you.” Hunter reclaimed her arm in a biting grip that made her swing around to face him. Bending his head, he whispered, “Blue Eyes, you test my temper. I will blow hard at you like the wind.” “Blow, then!” She tried to twist her arm free. “You’re hurting me.” “I will beat you. Then you will know a hurt. Now be silent!” Loretta’s eyes flared to a fiery blue. “I’m not going to marry you. Beat me senseless! Go ahead.” Hunter sent her a look that would have scared her to death a month ago. “Loh-rhett-ah, you will be silent and let him say the God words.” “He can say the God words until snowballs melt in--” She broke off and blushed. “I’m the one who has to say the words, Hunter, and I won’t. Do you understand?” “My dear child,” the priest inserted, “it’s not often one of these”--he threw a meaningful glance at Hunter--“ gentlemen offers to make an honorable woman of a captive. Wouldn’t it be wise to accept?” “I’m in no need of matrimony, Father. I still have my honor.”",
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