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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from… — Cormac McCarthy
the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is… — Lucille Clifton
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee… — Walt Whitman
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. — Philip Roth
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The… — Richard Bach
When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because… — Richard Bach
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to… — Kate Chopin
Mistakes are always mistakes, Or so I've heard them say... But if it teaches a lesson, The mistake will go away. — Stephen Cosgrove
From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar… — Don Marquis
Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back. — Ibi Kaslik
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,… — Samuel Beckett
What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We… — George Saunders
Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. — Katharine Graham
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him. — Susanna Clarke
Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What… — Melody Beattie
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was… — Alexandra Ivy
Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country… — Greg Mortenson
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. — Amy Tan
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression… — Melissa Bank
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come… — Alice Hoffman
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun… — Michael Pollan
He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all. — Robin McKinley
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen… — Steve Martin

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