Carrie
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She continued to walk down the street toward the small white house with the blue shutters. The familiar hate-love-dread feeling was churning inside her.
“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are half a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. The hawk pays no coinage to love or morals.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“In the end we are reduced to saying It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
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