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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
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unless it...
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
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If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
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Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
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…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
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Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
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Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
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Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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OM BENIWAL![]()
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The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
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Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
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This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, ... FLEA
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
PAT BURNS
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to...
YUL VAZQUEZ A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, n... LESLIE FIEDLER
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
DAVE PIRNER I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like wh...
RIC OCASEK Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual...
ANDY SUMMERS
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player. JIMMY IOVINE
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, ... TODD RUNDGREN
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some peopl...
BETH ORTON People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
MALORIE BLACKMAN
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN
There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI
It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want the...
JESSI KLEIN
He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a wo... KHALED HOSSEINI
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politi... BEN CARSON A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
After Rilke's Letters-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II
this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE
Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?""I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer JAZZ FEYLYNN Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN
I'll never be the best guitar player. CHAD KROEGER
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#... IAN MCEWAN I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to...
JOHN F. KERRY
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE
I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I... BILLY CONNOLLY Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF I would say a big event on the San Andreas would do awful things to Fort Bragg, because it is so clo...
DOROTHY MERRITTS In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a...
ANDREW DOST
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
MICK JONES I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take th...
TROMBONE SHORTY I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songw...
RANDY BACHMAN
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I h... SCOTT WEILAND People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL
To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ... DEYTH BANGER I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I...
KIESZA Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.......
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carrie... 
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ea... 
But I hope that I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books,
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki... 
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of th... 
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinkin... 
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. 
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ... 
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor... 
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i... 
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you... 
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. 
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying. 
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. 
The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa... 
Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi... 
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro... 
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ... 
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. 
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. 
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it... 
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B... 
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy... 
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I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. 
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the... 
The blues is life itself. 
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ... 
I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. 
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I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#... 
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ... 
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp... 