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- Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and…
- That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed…
- Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs…
- Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't…
- ...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a…
- We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic…
- The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be…
- I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
- I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed,…
- I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train…
- Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for…
- Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.
- A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get…
- If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
- Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon
- A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own…
- We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this…
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