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You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.
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“I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“But I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks on a cold night. There ain't ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and somebody is always going to nigh catch pneumonia. Hell, the law is like the pants you bought last year for a growing boy, but it is always this year and the seams are popped and the shankbone's in the breeze. The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different...”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
“Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.”
― Far North
― Far North
“For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
Porter Street Drunk Book Club
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— last activity Jan 17, 2016 05:29AM
Every month and a half to two months the bookpicker® gets to choose five possible books. Everyone gets a turn at being the bookpicker®. Then, everyone ...more
Hollins
— 36 members
— last activity Aug 02, 2007 02:20PM
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Twilight "Series" HATERS!
— 32 members
— last activity Jan 13, 2018 01:26PM
For all those who see the Twilight "series" for what it really is: a waste of money, time and paper. A disgrace called a "book". It doesn't even come ...more
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