I only had to drop acid once to know that Timothy Leary was right about questioning authority. Motorcycling is like life. There's nothing solid about it. Something not even the asphalt under your tires. Time on a motorcycle is unlike time spent anywhere else. There are moments lost in the landscape, seconds devoted solely to balance, and long stretches spent spiraling inward.
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RACHEL CAINE Macon Ethan I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived because he had die... KAMI GARCIA Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER The sun shines through the window And the sun shines through your hair It seems like you'r... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem Matthew 21 12: AND JESUS WENT INTO THE... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Veni... ITALO CALVINO To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun. A time to be born, ANONYMOUS Don't exist. Live. Get out, explore. Thrive. Challenge authority. Challenge you... BRIAN KRANS Ebb I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a holl... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman. You can take your ... FIONA THRUST Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back s... JAMES INGRAM In the ebb and flow of my life, in years gone by, in moments now, in currents, undertows... ROBERT TRABOLD Yes. Kissing. Overrated." "I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out ... TRACY SUMNER This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA Closed eyes can't sacrifice a third time i may never know A dreamer's dream GREG C WARNER Is it a very wicked place?" I asked, more for the sake of saying something than for information. CHARLES DICKENS Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocen... DIANE WAKOSKI Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it wai... FULTON J. SHEEN How much do you have in common with this guy?" "Not much. Basically we're polar opposites.... LISA KLEYPAS Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. 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ROMAN PAYNE "Conversation" God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . "And wh... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Katie says, "You can't choose the time and place the when and where with whom you fall in love." SARAH TREGAY I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s somethi... CECELIA AHERN I know you and I are not about poems or other sentimental bullshit but I have t... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Simone! Are you all right? Simone! " And a voice, grunting with pain, says, "Todd?" ... PATRICK NESS Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D.H. LAWRENCE Creatures of the Darkness BY VICKI JORDAN It was world of vampires and demons, wher... CHRIS COLFER Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, da... OGDEN NASH You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman. You can take your ... FIONA THRUST The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. ... 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BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta... BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin... BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w... BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise. BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th... BARBARA KINGSOLVER There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har... BARBARA JORDAN Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.' BARBARA JORDAN We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. The... BARBARA JORDAN A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this ... BARBARA JORDAN