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“Sergeant Max Franklin replied, “Just go back to your post at number six and keep your wits about you. The word from the Americans in “Big Red One” is that the Noggies are coming to us. I hope not, but it could be what you have been hearing.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“I can’t go into detail, but it’s why I went to the special meeting at the Pentagon.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
― Mark Twain

“Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.”
― Philip Pullman

“CHAPTER 4 A”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat or your house is on fire, you've got a problem. Everything else is merely an inconvenience.”
― Robert Fulghum

“Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”
― Franz Kafka

“JANIE GETS STRANGER EVERY YEAR.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Enough is the same as a feast.”
― Thomas Malory, Le Mort d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table - Volume I, Large Print

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Varium et mutabile! murmurs the man sagely - "A woman's privilege is to change her mind!" If the nature of his industry were such that he had to change his mind from cooking to cleaning, from cleaning to sewing, from sewing to nursing, from nursing to teaching, and so, backward, forward, crosswise and over again, from morning to night - he too would become adept in the lightning-change act. The man adopts one business and follows it. He develops special ability, on long lines, in connection with wide interests - and so grows broader and steadier. The distinction is there, but it is not a distinction of sex. This is why the man forgets to mail the letter. He is used to one consecutive train of thought and action. She, used to a varying zigzag horde of little things, can readily accommodate a few more.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman