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No one may know of it, but you never forget the thump--eh? A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you wake up at night and think of it--years after--and go hot and cold all over.
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“... let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal." - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (June 10th, 1963)”
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“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― The Empirical Observations of Algernon
― The Empirical Observations of Algernon
“She should be standing before the stove in her new robe, full of simple, encouraging talk. Still, when she opened her eyes a few minutes ago (after seven already!)—when she still half inhabited her dream, some sort of pulsating machinery in the remote distance, a steady pounding like a gigantic mechanical heart, which seemed to be drawing nearer—she felt the dank sensation around her, the nowhere feeling, and knew it was going to be a difficult day. She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself,”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“You might have been surrounded by other people – people telling you they cared, that they would protect you – but the truth is, really you were always on your own.”
― The Good Patient
― The Good Patient
“According to an old sailing proverb, below latitude 40° south there is no law, and below 50° south, no God.”
― The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
― The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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