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Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter.…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea.…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get…
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It's a hard world for little things,
— Lillian Gish
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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal…
— Martin Lewis Perl
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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
— Franny Billingsley
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...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to…
— Wendell Berry
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Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter…
— Libba Bray
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But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you…
— Stephen King
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Life doesn't complicated but when we pass the limits we find a new hard world and we blame life because of that…
— Asma Hadjri DZ
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It's a hard world out there,it's even harder if your stupid.
— John Wayne
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