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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God,…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up…
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different…
— Barbara Hepworth
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,…
— Elena Ferrante
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
— Evelyn Waugh
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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn…
— Anne Lamott
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
— Sigmund Freud
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
— Jane Smiley
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense…
— Jeremy Denk
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