"Why is it the songs all end with……" — Sherwood Smith
"Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us."
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23 Quotes by Sherwood Smith
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Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
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When in doubt, be ridiculous.
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Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.
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Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.
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