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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still…
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking…
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...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back,…
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to…
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It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature…
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look…
— John Cusack
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You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.
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I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.
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I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
— Burt Lancaster
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But I still had to tell myself, Keep looking up. I will tell you, he isnt Superman for nothing.
— Erica Durance
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God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we…
— Richard Kadrey
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