Bitter Quote by Josephine Winslow Johnson

“things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.” quote by Josephine Winslow Johnson — Download Open image

“things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.”

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“And there was the inner walking on the edge of darkness, the peering into black doorways...the unrevealed answer which must be somewhere, and yet might not be even present or hidden in that darkness..this under-life which when traced or held to was not there, and yet kept coming back and thrust up like an iron dike through the solid layers…

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The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

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We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the…

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The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

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... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

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“I like to pretend that the years alter and revalue, but begin to see that time does nothing but enlarge without mutation. You have a chance here--more than a chance, it is thrust upon you--to be alone and still. To look backward and forward and see with clarity. To see the years behind, the essential loneliness, and the likeness of…

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Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!

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in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

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