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> [“This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reginald-rose/this-is-a-quiet-frightened-insignificant-old-man-who-has-been-nothing/)

[Reginald Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reginald-rose/)

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> [I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/i-might-have-arguments-with-the-size-of-reagan-s-military-buildup-but/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“Howard, instead of trying to explain the hermit's existence in terms of hearth fires and trappers' shacks, preferred the blank space the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-hardinga/howard-instead-of-trying-to-explain-the-hermit-s-existence-in-terms/)

[Paul Hardinga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-hardinga/)

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> [“Seventh bearer of the cursed name Akiva.” Here he paused, speculative. “No Misbegotten ever bore that name to manhood before you. Did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laini-taylor/seventh-bearer-of-the-cursed-name-akiva-here-he-paused-speculative-no/)

[Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laini-taylor/)

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> [“I realise something. My ‘fuck it, I just want to get smashed’ moments are usually about boredom and pleasure-seeking. When I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-stark/i-realise-something-my-fuck-it-i-just-want-to-get-smashed-moments-are/)

[Jill Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-stark/)

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> [“And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/and-when-i-had-learned-it-i-looked-at-my-life-and-it-was-also-a-river/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [“Look, he's just in another form! Do you understand?" Ma explained. I didn't know where she was going with it. The old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-patrick-macdonald/look-he-s-just-in-another-form-do-you-understand-ma-explained-i-didn/)

[Michael Patrick MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-patrick-macdonald/)

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> [“Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/answer-me-two-more-questions-said-the-king-the-first-is-why-did-the/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“Trent was positively smug. Showing me his back, he rifled through a rack of earth charms and watched his hair shift color.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-harrison/trent-was-positively-smug-showing-me-his-back-he-rifled-through-a/)

[Kim Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-harrison/)

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> [“Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-jackson/bill-hutchinson-went-over-to-his-wife-and-forced-the-slip-of-paper/)

[Shirley Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-jackson/)

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> [“Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One, two; why, then ‘tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/out-damned-spot-out-i-say-one-two-why-then-tis-time-to-do-t-hell-is/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [I love Fargo, I love all of them, but Miller's Crossing just happens to be my favorite. When I heard Coen brothers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-grant/i-love-fargo-i-love-all-of-them-but-miller-s-crossing-just-happens-to/)

[Beth Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-grant/)

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> [“9 likes Like Facebook\_icon “Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bo-burnham/9-likes-like-facebook-icon-read-this-to-yourself-read-it-silently-don/)

[Bo Burnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bo-burnham/)

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> [“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/it-is-impossible-to-say-how-first-the-idea-entered-my-brain-but-once/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [“Over the next few weeks, the Comanches attacked with a vengeance. News came that the mercenaries, en route to attack another village,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/over-the-next-few-weeks-the-comanches-attacked-with-a-vengeance-news-2/)

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

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> [“Now his grandfather’s actions were adding to his unwanted notoriety. The death of Ian’s father had evidently caused the old duke to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-mcnaught/now-his-grandfather-s-actions-were-adding-to-his-unwanted-notoriety/)

[Judith McNaught](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-mcnaught/)

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> [“Rather than sleep, Tibbets crawled through the thirty-foot tunnel to chat with the waist crew, wondering if they knew what they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rhodes/rather-than-sleep-tibbets-crawled-through-the-thirty-foot-tunnel-to/)

[Richard Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rhodes/)

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> [“An old man sat down beside her. "Well, aren't you a pretty little peach?" His breath smelled near as foul as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin-2/an-old-man-sat-down-beside-her-well-aren-t-you-a-pretty-little-peach/)

[George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-r-martin-2/)

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> [“I shall die soon ... Here at this Dros. And what will I have achieved in my life? I have no sons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gemmell/i-shall-die-soon-here-at-this-dros-and-what-will-i-have-achieved-in/)

[David Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gemmell/)

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> [ Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said\[...\] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-briggs/wolves-eat-coyotes-gordon-said-if-he-weren-t-an-old-man-i-had-some/)

[Patricia Briggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-briggs/)

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> [They were the perfect couple, they'd always lock lips He gave her his heart, he said don't drop this She looked him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fozzey-and-van-c/they-were-the-perfect-couple-they-d-always-lock-lips-he-gave-her-his-2/)

[Fozzey And Van C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fozzey-and-van-c/)

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> [“For some moments the two men sat quietly, each wrapped in his own thoughts, then Ivor rose. 'I should speak to Levon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-gavriel-kay/for-some-moments-the-two-men-sat-quietly-each-wrapped-in-his-own/)

[Guy Gavriel Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-gavriel-kay/)

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> [“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-leigh-fermor/a-little-later-as-we-talked-of-the-maniot-dirges-by-which-i-was/)

[Patrick Leigh Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-leigh-fermor/)

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> [“What, you’re looking at my lodger’s birds, Mr. Jarndyce?” The old man had come by little and little into the room, until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-you-re-looking-at-my-lodger-s-birds-mr-jarndyce-the-old-man-had/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/laocoon-n-a-famous-piece-of-antique-scripture-representing-a-priest/)

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

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> [“When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-robbins/when-i-wrote-the-betsy-i-spent-a-lot-of-time-in-detroit-with-the-ford/)

[Harold Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-robbins/)

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> [“Pastor Ray O. Jones stated his feelings well as he wrote of a conversation he had with a nine-year–old boy. \* The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-b-foshee/pastor-ray-o-jones-stated-his-feelings-well-as-he-wrote-of-a/)

[Howard B. Foshee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-b-foshee/)

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> [Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/daughter-to-that-good-earl-once-president-of-england-s-council-and/)

[John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/)

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> [Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kit-williamson/writing-stretches-me-to-my-limits-and-affirms-my-potential-all-while/)

[Kit Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kit-williamson/)

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> [“Sisyphus cheated death,” Nico explained. “First he chained up Thanatos, the reaper of souls, so no one could die. Then when Thanatos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/sisyphus-cheated-death-nico-explained-first-he-chained-up-thanatos/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/abba-moses-asked-abba-sylvanus-can-a-person-lay-a-new-foundation/)

[Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/)

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> [“When we walk in, everybody turns to look at us. Pres looks down at our joined hands and then looks to Knox.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexa-riley/when-we-walk-in-everybody-turns-to-look-at-us-pres-looks-down-at-our/)

[Alexa Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexa-riley/)

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> [“A shabby looking old man was walking their way. It must be a relative of one of the men, wandering in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-williams/a-shabby-looking-old-man-was-walking-their-way-it-must-be-a-relative/)

[Kate Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-williams/)

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> [“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-bageant/the-tide-of-our-national-meanness-rises-incrementally-one-brutalizing/)

[Joe Bageant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-bageant/)

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> [“an old man with no destiny with our never knowing who he was, or what he was like, or even if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/an-old-man-with-no-destiny-with-our-never-knowing-who-he-was-or-what/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [“Old Man River! That seems far too austere a name For something made of mirth and rage. O, roiling red-blood river vein,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-j-butler/old-man-river-that-seems-far-too-austere-a-name-for-something-made-of/)

[Tracy J. Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-j-butler/)

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> [“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/as-we-have-seen-prayer-celebration-of-the-religious-offices-alms/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-word-god-has-become-empty-of-meaning-through-thousands-of-years-2/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/would-sometimes-say-that-if-life-were-made-what-it-might-be-by-good/)

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

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> [“Bertie old man I say Bertie could you possibly come down here at once. Everything gone wrong hang it all. Dash it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-g-wodehouse/bertie-old-man-i-say-bertie-could-you-possibly-come-down-here-at-once/)

[P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-g-wodehouse/)

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                        "text": "“This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the newspapers. Nobody knows him, nobody quotes him, nobody seeks his advice after seventy-five years. That's a very sad thing, to be nothing. A man like this needs to be recognized, to be listened to, to be quoted just once. This is very important. It would be so hard for him to recede into the background ...”",
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                        "text": "I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.",
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                        "text": "“Howard, instead of trying to explain the hermit's existence in terms of hearth fires and trappers' shacks, preferred the blank space the old man actually seemed to inhabit; he liked to think of some fold in the woods, some seam that only the hermit could sense and slip into, where the ice and snow, where the frozen forest itself, would accept him and he would no longer need fire or wool blankets, but instead flourish wreathed in snow, spun in frost, with limbs like cold wood and blood like frigid sap.”",
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                        "text": "“Seventh bearer of the cursed name Akiva.” Here he paused, speculative. “No Misbegotten ever bore that name to manhood before you. Did you know that? Old Byon the steward, he gave it out of spite. Wanted your mother to beg him not to. Any other woman in the harem would have, but not Festival. ‘Scribble whatever you like on your list, old man,’ she told him. ‘My son will not be tangled in your feeble fates.’ ”",
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                        "text": "“And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only separated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by a shadow, not by something real. Also, Siddhartha's previous births were no past, and his death and his return to Brahma was no future. Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.”",
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                        "text": "“Look, he's just in another form! Do you understand?\" Ma explained. I didn't know where she was going with it. The old man Wren looked down and gripped her hand, unable to say anything. Ma said, \"Look! You know how you've taken many forms in this life?\" He looked up again. \"First you were a baby. Then you were a little kid running around these glens. Then you were a young man getting married.\" Mr. Wren exclaimed, \"Yes!\" repeatedly, getting louder with every form he'd ever taken in this world. By the excited look on him, I thought Ma was going to do him in with memories. His trembling was getting worse and he cried, but not like a child, because he was crying and smiling at the same time. \"You're not the same form you were even ten years ago! It's like evolution. Throughout this life you just go from form to form! Well, it's the same when you die. Your son is just in another form! Do you hear me?”",
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                        "text": "“Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased to do so now? And the second is, Why your grandson walks with two crutches, your son with one, and you yourself with none? Your eyes are bright, your teeth sound, and your speech clear and pleasant to the ear. How have these things come about?’ And the old man answered: ‘These things are so, because men have ceased to live by their own labour, and have taken to depending on the labour of others. In the old time, men lived according to God’s law. They had what was their own, and coveted not what others had produced.”",
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                        "text": "“Trent was positively smug. Showing me his back, he rifled through a rack of earth charms and watched his hair shift color. “And whereas I might otherwise object—” “Bairn did the investigation on your parents’ deaths,” I interrupted, thoughts scrambling. “And my dad’s.” Bairn is supposed to be dead. Why is he across the road pretending to be a kind old man named Keasley? And how did Trent know who he was? His hair now an authoritative gray, Trent frowned. “And whereas I might otherwise object,” he tried again, “Quen assures me that between Bairn and two pixies—” “Two!” I blurted. “Jih took a husband?” “Damn it, Rachel, will you shut up!”",
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                        "text": "“Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd. \"All right, folks,\" Mr. Summers said. \"Let's finish quickly.\" Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box. Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. \"Come on,\" she said. \"Hurry up.\" Mrs. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said, gasping for breath, \"I can't run at all. You'll have to go ahead and I'll catch up with you.\" The children had stones already, and someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles. Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. \"It isn't fair,\" she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, \"Come on, come on, everyone.\" Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Graves beside him. \"It isn't fair, it isn't right,\" Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”",
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                        "text": "“Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One, two; why, then ‘tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now?—What, will these hands ne’er be clean?—No more o’that, my lord, no more o’that: you mar all with this starting. Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!”",
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                        "text": "I love Fargo, I love all of them, but Miller's Crossing just happens to be my favorite. When I heard Coen brothers were doing No Country For Old Men, I thought, \"This is it. This is their masterpiece. This is going to be the one, because it's going to bring every element together.\" I just had a feeling about it.",
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                        "text": "“9 likes Like Facebook_icon “Read this to yourself. Read it silently. Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything. What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT. Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice: \"Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?\" Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that? How?! It must've been magic.”",
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                        "text": "“Over the next few weeks, the Comanches attacked with a vengeance. News came that the mercenaries, en route to attack another village, were all killed. Tales of Hunter filtered to the Masters farm, some horrible, some heartbreakingly familiar. As fiercely as the Indians waged war, Hunter still spared women and children. Loretta’s eyes filled with tears when she was told by the border patrol from Fort Belknap that somewhere along the Red River, Hunter had ridden up to a yellow-haired woman and saluted her. Loretta knew Hunter hoped she would somehow hear the tale and understand the message he sent to her. She did understand, and she grieved for what might have been. With every Indian attack, the chasm between her and Hunter grew wider. When the horror of it became too much, she found herself justifying the Indians’ actions by remembering the attack on the village. She recalled Many Horses, a frail old man, trying to rescue a child and dying as a result. She thought of the terrified young squaw, running for her life ad her child’s, cut down from behind. She realized now that there was no good or bad, no right or wrong, just people fighting for their lives. Wonderful people, who lived and loved and laughed. She thought of Red Buffalo often, finally accepting what Hunter had tried so desperately to explain, that good men can be driven to do horrible things. Red Buffalo had committed some unforgivable acts, but at long last Loretta could look deeper into the man and come closer to understanding why. She thanked God that she had saved Red Buffalo’s life during the tosi tivo attack, knowing that Red Buffalo guarded Hunter’s back against the tosi tivo with the same ferocity that he had once tried to guard Hunter’s future against one tosi woman.”",
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                        "text": "“Now his grandfather’s actions were adding to his unwanted notoriety. The death of Ian’s father had evidently caused the old duke to feel some belated request for the estrangement, and for the last twelve years he’d been writing to Ian periodically. At first he had pleaded with Ian to come and visit him at Stanhope. When Ian ignored his letters, he’d tried bribing him with promises to name Ian his legitimate heir. Those letters had gone unanswered, and for the last two years the old man’s silence had misled Ian into thinking he’d given up. Four months ago, however, another letter bearing Stanhope’s ducal crest had been delivered to Ian, and this one infuriated him. The old man had imperiously given Ian four months in which to appear at Stanhope and meet with him to discuss arrangements for the transfer of six estates-estates that would have been Ian’s father’s inheritance had the duke not disowned him. According to the letter, if Ian did not appear, the duke planned to proceed without him, publicly naming him his heir. Ian had written to his grandfather for the first time in his life; the note had been short and final. It was also eloquent proof that Ian Thornton was as unforgiving as his grandfather, who’d rejected his own son for two decades: Try it and you’ll look a fool. I’ll disclaim all knowledge of any relationship with you, and if you still persist, I’ll let your title and your estates rot.”",
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                        "text": "“An old man sat down beside her. \"Well, aren't you a pretty little peach?\" His breath smelled near as foul as the dead men in the cages, and his little pig eyes were crawling up and down her. \"Does my sweet peach have a name?\" For half a heartbeat she forgot who she was supposed to be. She wasn't any peach, but she couldn't be Arya Stark either, not here with some smelly drunk she did not know. \"I'm . . .\" \"She's my sister.\" Gendry put a heavy hand on the old man's shoulder, and squeezed. \"Leave her be.\" The man turned, spoiling for a quarrel, but when he saw Gendry's size he thought better of it. \"You sister, is she? What kind of brother are you? I'd never bring no sister of mine to the Peach, that I wouldn't.\" He got up from the bench and moved off muttering, in search of a new friend. \"Why did you say that?\" Arya hopped to her feet, \"You're not my brother.\" \"That's right,\" he said angrily. \"I'm too bloody lowborn to be kin to m'lady high.\" Arya was taken aback by the fury in his voice. \"That's not the way I mean it.\" \"Yes it is.\" He sat down on the bench, cradling a cup of wine between his hands. \"Go away. I want to drink this wine in peace. Then maybe I'll go find that black-haired girl and ring her bell for her.\" \"But . . .\" \"I said, go away . M'lady.\" Arya whirled and left him there. A stupid bullheaded bastard boy, that's all he is . He could ring all the bells he wanted, it was nothing to her.”",
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                        "text": "“I shall die soon ... Here at this Dros. And what will I have achieved in my life? I have no sons nor daughters. No living kin... Few friends. They will say, 'Here lies Druss. He killed many and birthed none'.\" \"They will say more than that,\" said Virae suddenly. \"They'll say, 'Here lies Druss the Legend, who was never mean, petty nor needlessly cruel. Here was a man who never gave in, never compromised his ideals, never betrayed a friend, never despoiled a woman and never used his strength against the weak.' They'll say 'He had no sons, but many a woman asleep with her babes slept more soundly for knowing Druss stood with the Drenai.' They'll say many things, whitebeard. Through many generations they will say them, and men with no strength will find strength when they hear them.\" \"That would be pleasant,\" said the old man, smiling.”",
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                        "text": "Wolves eat coyotes,\" Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. \"Yes,\" observed Adam blandly. \"I do.\" Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.",
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                        "text": "They were the perfect couple, they'd always lock lips He gave her his heart, he said don't drop this She looked him in the eye, and said I promise you I'll replace it with mine and it's not gonna move He'd always ditch his friends, he put their love first But as he found out, that's when love hurts She wasn't faithful, always out creepin' round And she was never really there whenever he'd be down But he never caught on he was caught up Cause growin' up, he was never really taught love His old man always did his mum the wrong way And whenever they'd fight, he'd let a song play So he told himself fuck it I'll be different But little did he know by doin' that, he'd be distant Cause his girl was always goin' out and gettin' high But he loved her to much that he let it slide He didn't understand why she would always make it hard But he never spoke up, so they could make it last And over time you could see it start to take a toll It's like she got a kick out of tryna break his soul But still he soldiered on puttin' on that brave face Until the night he saw her gettin' with his best mate His stomach dropped, as his chest started cavin' in She gave his mate the same looks that she gave to him He didn't say a word he just turned around Cause every bridge they'ed ever built, she just burnt em down He sent a subtle text, not knowing what's coming next All he thought about was tyin that rope round his neck He sat in his room talkin to his walls like No-one will miss me I'm sure that they'll be alright I mean look at me, I can't even find hope Just before he stepped off and tied the rope An hour passes no-body knows that he's gone He's tensed up all white with a note in his palm His girlfriend walks in and drops to the floor But the note in his hand can not be ignored Tears runnin' down her face and her make up The first three words she read were I hate love I saw everything I saw the look in your eye But in a way it's alright cause we're born to die Tell mum and dad that I'm sorry that it came to this But I can't go on because I hate this shit I hate the way you can do everything you please And deep down you know I gave you everything you need All the memories we made start to fade to black And I know just like you I can't take this back I also wrote you a song it's in your tape deck And when we fucked I just wished it was safe sex Cause I saw the positive on the stick you hid But for all I know the kid could be his So don't try and say I'm the one that fucked up And I know your hearts breaking and it sucks huh This is it though I'm runnin' out of time to write But I'm goin' cause I felt like the time was right And you should know that my very last thought was you And there's pictures on my bed that I was sortin' through I just wish when it came to us you would try But this is it baby, Goodbye",
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                        "text": "“For some moments the two men sat quietly, each wrapped in his own thoughts, then Ivor rose. 'I should speak to Levon about tomorrow's hunt,' he said. 'Sixteen [eltors], I think.' 'At least,' the shaman said in an aggrieved tone. 'I could eat a whole one myself. We haven't feasted in a long time, Ivor.' Ivor snorted. 'A very long time, you greedy old man. Twelve whole days...why aren't you fat?' 'Becaues,' the wisest one explained patiently, 'you never have enough food at the feasts.”",
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                        "text": "“What, you’re looking at my lodger’s birds, Mr. Jarndyce?” The old man had come by little and little into the room, until he now touched my guardian with his elbow, and looked close up into his face with his spectacled eyes. “It’s one of her strange ways, that she’ll never tell the names of these birds if she can help it, though she named ‘em all.” This was in a whisper. “Shall I run ‘em over, Flite?” he asked aloud, winking at us and pointing at her as she turned away, affecting to sweep the grate. “If you like,” she answered hurriedly. The old man, looking up at the cages, after another look at us, went through the list. “Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. That’s the whole collection,” said the old man, “all cooped up together, by my noble and learned brother.” “This is a bitter wind!” muttered my guardian. “When my noble and learned brother gives his Judgment, they’re to be let go free” said Krook, winking at us again.”",
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                        "text": "LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.",
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                        "text": "“When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the place had supplied me with Fords, a Mustang, that station wagon we still have…. After he read the book and I was flying home from New York the day after it was published, he made a phone call to the office on Sunset and asked for all the cars to be returned. I guess he didn’t like the book.”",
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                        "text": "“Pastor Ray O. Jones stated his feelings well as he wrote of a conversation he had with a nine-year–old boy. * The youngster had asked him, “What's it like to be a preacher?” Pastor Jones replied: “Being a pastor is something like many other tasks in life, and yet it is unlike anything else in all the world. It's being loved and unloved, wanted and unwanted, understood and misunderstood. It's joy and sadness. It's heaven—and just to be honest—a bit of hell at times. “My job keeps me in touch with birth and death, love and hate. As a pastor, I must be able to go from death to birth in a moment's notice. It's like talking with a drunken bum one minute and counseling with a beauty queen the next. It's climbing the stairs of a hospital wondering how many times I've climbed them before and how much—or how little—I've helped someone in pain. “It's someone saying, ‘If it hadn't been for you.’ It's walking across a lonely graveyard after a funeral and wondering about the old man you buried. It's picking a man up out of the gutter when no one seems to care and telling him God cares, that God loves him and sent Christ into the world to die for his sins. “There is no joy comparable to that of being a pastor. The heartaches and sorrows at times overwhelm us as shepherds of God's people, but the joy of serving, loving, and sharing with the people of God more than compensate for the hard and difficult hours.”",
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                        "text": "Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.",
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                        "text": "Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.",
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                        "text": "“Sisyphus cheated death,” Nico explained. “First he chained up Thanatos, the reaper of souls, so no one could die. Then when Thanatos got free and was about to kill him, Sisyphus told his wife to do incorrect funeral rites so he wouldn’t rest in peace. Sisy here—May I call you Sisy?” “No!” “Sisy tricked Persephone into letting him go back to the world to haunt his wife. And he didn’t come back.” The old man cackled. “I stayed alive another thirty years before they finally tracked me down!” Thalia was halfway up the hill now. She gritted her teeth, pushing the boulder with her back. Her expression said Hurry up! “So that was your punishment,” I said to Sisyphus. “Rolling a boulder up a hill forever. Was it worth it?” “A temporary setback!” Sisyphus cried. “I’ll bust out of here soon, and when I do, they’ll all be sorry!” “How would you get out of the Underworld?” Nico asked. “It’s locked down, you know.” Sisyphus grinned wickedly. “That’s what the other one asked.” My stomach tightened. “Someone else asked your advice?” “An angry young man,” Sisyphus recalled. “Not very polite. Held a sword to my throat. Didn’t offer to roll my boulder at all.” “What did you tell him?” Nico said. “Who was he?” Sisyphus massaged his shoulders. He glanced up at Thalia, who was almost to the top of the hill. Her face was bright red and drenched in sweat. “Oh . . . it’s hard to say,” Sisyphus said. “Never seen him before. He carried a long package all wrapped up in black cloth. Skis, maybe? A shovel? Maybe if you wait here, I could go look for him. . . .” “What did you tell him?” I demanded. “Can’t remember.” Nico drew his sword. The Stygian iron was so cold it steamed in the hot dry air of Punishment. “Try harder.” The old man winced. “What kind of person carries a sword like that?” “A son of Hades,” Nico said. “Now answer me!” The color drained from Sisyphus’s face. “I told him to talk to Melinoe! She always has a way out!” Nico lowered his sword. I could tell the name Melinoe bothered him. “Are you crazy?” he said. “That’s suicide!” The old man shrugged. “I’ve cheated death before. I could do it again.” “What did this demigod look like?” “Um . . . he had a nose,” Sisyphus said. “A mouth. And one eye and—” “One eye?” I interrupted. “Did he have an eye patch?” “Oh . . . maybe,” Sisyphus said. “He had hair on his head. And—” He gasped and looked over my shoulder. “There he is!” We fell for it. As soon as we turned, Sisyphus took off down the hill. “I’m free! I’m free! I’m—ACK!” Ten feet from the hill, he hit the end of his invisible leash and fell on his back. Nico and I grabbed his arms and hauled him up the hill. “Curse you!” He let loose with bad words in Ancient Greek, Latin, English, French, and several other languages I didn’t recognize. “I’ll never help you! Go to Hades!” “Already there,” Nico muttered. “Incoming!” Thalia shouted. I looked up and might have used a few cuss words myself. The boulder was bouncing straight toward us. Nico jumped one way. I jumped the other. Sisyphus yelled, “NOOOOOOO!” as the thing plowed into him. Somehow he braced himself and stopped it before it could run him over. I guess he’d had a lot of practice. “Take it again!” he wailed. “Please. I can’t hold it.” “Not again,” Thalia gasped. “You’re on your own.” He treated us to a lot more colorful language. It was clear he wasn’t going to help us any further, so we left him to his punishment.”",
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                        "text": "Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.",
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                        "text": "“When we walk in, everybody turns to look at us. Pres looks down at our joined hands and then looks to Knox. I open my mouth to say something, but he beats me to it. Of course he does. “Yo. Little announcement here. Violent Violet and I are together. She’s my old lady and I’m her old man. Yada yada yada, we’re getting married. So there’s that.” I look at him, and I feel my jaw pop open. “Did you just yada yada your proposal to me?” Knox shrugs like it’s no big deal. “Wasn’t going to let you tell me no.” The big scarred-up guy comes over and gives him a high five. “Best way to do it,” he says and pats Knox on the back. “About time you made an honest man out of him,” Pres says, walking over and giving me a hug. I feel Knox’s hand tighten, and he doesn’t let it go while I awkwardly try to hug the guy back. “We’re all a family here now, and it’s going to stay that way. We agreed that you’re patched in, regardless if you marry this nerd or not.” I lean into Knox and laugh. “Thank you.” “Welcome to the Ghost Riders,” Pres says, and suddenly I hear a champagne cork pop and we’re all being sprayed with suds. I try to turn into Knox’s chest, but he holds me in front of him so I get covered. As more champagne is popped and more bottles get poured, Knox spins me in his arms and raises me up so we are at eye level. “I love you, baby,” he says, kissing me on the lips. ‘Love you, too,” I mumble as I wrap myself around him. I’m finally at peace with myself and my life, and I’ve got someone to always make me feel safe. It was a long time coming, but it was worth the wait. And now we’ve got the rest of our lives to do this thing we call love.”",
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                        "text": "“A shabby looking old man was walking their way. It must be a relative of one of the men, wandering in the wrong direction as they often did. Where were they going to put this one? He was wearing a pulled-down hat and he had a long beard. He was weaving towards her, his feet tripping unsteadily.Even though she could not see his face, there was something oddly familiar about him. She stared hard, trying to make it out. He put up his hand and waved. She stared again. \"That's your father,\" said Tom.”",
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                        "text": "“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a chain of working-class Americans stretching back for decades. Back to the terror-filled nineteen-year-old girl from Weirton, West Virginia, who patrols the sweat-smelling halls of one of the empire's far-flung prisons at midnight. Back to my neighbor's eighty-year-old father, who remembers getting paid $2 apiece for literally cracking open the heads of union organizers at our textile and sewing mills during the days of Virginia's Byrd political machine. (It was the Depression and the old man needed the money to support his family.) The brutal way in which America's hardest-working folks historically were forced to internalize the values of a gangster capitalist class continues to elude the left, which, with few exceptions, understands not a thing about how this political and economic system has hammered the humanity of ordinary working people. Much of the ongoing battle for America's soul is about healing the souls of these Americans and rousing them from the stupefying glut of commodity and spectacle. It is about making sure that they—and we—refuse to accept torture as the act of \"heroes\" and babies deformed by depleted uranium as the \"price of freedom.\" Caught up in the great self-referential hologram of imperial America, force-fed goods and hubris like fattened steers, working people like World Championship Wrestling and Confederate flags and flat-screen televisions and the idea of an American empire. (\"American Empire! I like the sound of that!\" they think to themselves, without even the slightest idea what it means historically.)”",
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                        "text": "“an old man with no destiny with our never knowing who he was, or what he was like, or even if he was only a figment of the imagination, a comic tyrant who never knew where the reverse side was and where the right of this life which we loved with an insatiable passion that you never dared even to imagine out of the fear of knowing what we knew only too well that it was arduous and ephemeral but there wasn't any other, general, because we knew who we were while he was left never knowing it forever with the soft whistle of his rupture of a dead old man cut off at the roots by the slash of death, flying through the dark sound of the last frozen leaves of his autumn toward the homeland of shadows of the truth of oblivion, clinging to his fear of the rotting cloth of death's hooded cassock and alien to the clamor of the frantic crowds who took to the streets singing hymns of joy at the jubilant news of his death and alien forevermore to the music of liberation and the rockets of jubilation and the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end.”",
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                        "text": "“Old Man River! That seems far too austere a name For something made of mirth and rage. O, roiling red-blood river vein, If chief among your traits is age, You're a wily, convoluted sage. Is \"old\" the thing to call what rings The vernal heart of wester-lore; What brings us brassy-myth made kings (And preponderance of bug-type things) To challenge titans come before? Demiurge to a try at Avalon-once-more! And what august vitality In your wide aorta stream You must have had to oversee Alchemic change of timber beam To iron, brick and engine steam. Your umber whiskey waters lance The prideful sober sovereignty Of faulty-haloed Temperance And wilt her self-sure countenance; Yes, righteousness is vanity, But your sport's for imps, not elderly. If there's a name for migrant mass Of veteran frivolity That snakes through seas of prairie grass And groves of summer sassafras, A name that flows as roguishly As gypsy waters, fast and free, It's your real name, Mississippi.”",
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                        "text": "“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, self-sacrifice, confidence, study, and work, filled up each day of his life. Filled up is exactly the phrase; and in fact, the Bishop's day was full to the brim with good thoughts, good words, and good actions. Yet it was not complete if cold or rainy weather prevented him from passing an hour or two in the evening, when the two women had retired, in his garden before going to sleep. It seemed as though it were a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for sleep by meditating in the presence of the great spectacle of the starry firmament. Sometimes late at night, if the two women were awake, they would hear him slowly walking the paths. He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts that fall from the Unknown. In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night emit their perfume, lit like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the midst of creation’s universal radiance, perhaps he could not have told what was happening in his own mind; he felt something depart from him, and something descend upon him; mysterious exchanges of the depths of the soul with the depths of the universe. He contemplated the grandeur, and the presence of God; the eternity of the future, that strange mystery; the eternity of the past, a stranger mystery; all the infinities hidden deep in every direction; and, without trying to comprehend the incomprehensible, he saw it. He did not study God; he was dazzled by Him. He reflected upon the magnificent union of atoms, which give visible forms to Nature, revealing forces by recognizing them, creating individualities in unity, proportions in extension, the innumerable in the infinite, and through light producing beauty. These unions are forming and dissolving continually; from which come life and death. He would sit on a wooden bench leaning against a decrepit trellis and look at the stars through the irregular outlines of his fruit trees. This quarter of an acre of ground, so sparingly planted, so cluttered with shed and ruins, was dear to him and satisfied him. What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the day time, and contemplation at night? Was this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background not space enough for him to adore God in his most beautiful, most sublime works? Indeed, is that not everything? What more do you need? A little garden to walk in, and immensity to reflect on. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in the sky.”",
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                        "text": "“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is that they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as “My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false,” or Nietzsche’s famous statement “God is dead.” The word God has become a closed concept. The moment the word is uttered, a mental image is created, no longer, perhaps, of an old man with a white beard, but still a mental representation of someone or something outside you, and, yes, almost inevitably a male someone or something.”",
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                        "text": "“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but he never spoke with anything like enthusiasm even of that possibility. He never varied in rating intellectual enjoyments above all others, even in value as pleasures, independently of their ulterior benefits. The pleasures of the benevolent affections he placed high in the scale; and used to say, that he had never known a happy old man, except those who were able to live over again in the pleasures of the young. For passionate emotions of all sorts, and for everything which has been said or written in exaltation of them, he professed the greatest contempt. He regarded them as a form of madness. “The intense” was with him a bye-word of scornful disapprobation. He regarded as an aberration of the moral standard of modern times, compared with that of the ancients, the great stress laid upon feeling. Feelings, as such, he considered to be no proper subjects of praise or blame. Right and”",
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                        "text": "“Bertie old man I say Bertie could you possibly come down here at once. Everything gone wrong hang it all. Dash it Bertie you simply must come. I am in a state of absolute despair and heart-broken. Would you mind sending another hundred of those cigarettes. Bring Jeeves when you come Bertie. You simply must come Bertie. I rely on you. Don't forget to bring Jeeves. Bingo. For a chap who's perpetually hard-up, I must say that young Bingo is the most wasteful telegraphist I ever struck. He's got no notion of condensing. The silly ass simply pours out his wounded soul at twopence a word, or whatever it is, without a thought.”",
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