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If the key to their safety lived in the mind of a lunatic, what could they do but scatter their hopes and dreams in the winds of madness and pray they landed close to their destination?
“Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.”
― Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
― Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“Once in a while i am struck
all over again... by just how blue
the sky appears .. on wind-played
autumn mornings, blue enough
to bruise a heart.”
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all over again... by just how blue
the sky appears .. on wind-played
autumn mornings, blue enough
to bruise a heart.”
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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
― Those Imperfect Strokes
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
― Those Imperfect Strokes
“I am not light nor the absence of it. I am the broad spectrum. Everything that makes you think, want to touch, or taste. Don't box me into that life that you so desperately need to be black and white because that's not me; I won't fit. I am bold, brilliant, and beautiful, I will sparkle and shimmer every hue. Ever changing. Undefinable. So do not give me limits or make me try to fit. There is no containing subtle softness careening into the harsh and dominant, every faucet creating a reaction which will cause you to feel and know you are alive." - Kendal Waller”
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