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A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a… — Nora Roberts
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my… — Hermann Hesse
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a… — Fannie Flagg
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was… — Charles Bukowski
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially… — Polly Horvath
My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be… — Mary Hoffman
I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father,… — Alice Sebold
Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and… — Cameron Dokey
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "Sheâ€™s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone… — Alice Sebold
You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the… — Hermann Hesse
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by… — Douglas Coupland
It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were… — W G Sebald
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they… — Alan Moore
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that… — Brennan Manning
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11.… — Lucille Clifton

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