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[Platonov]

"The Spirit is a Bone" Hegel.

[Elizabeth Rogers 47]

"Living well is the best Revenge."

Gerald (or Sara) Murphy

-- 11 Jun 2014, 13:22 --

I like Post #30. But Mary Bly isn't quite right. My cat always comes when I call her. And she thinks I am God. Still, Robet HeinLein's quote is great! (Women and cats/ Men and dogs)

[chibi_kitsune]

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~ C.S. Lewis

[jhollan2]

"The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And as she held her sword, she smiled like a knife." Neil Gaiman's description of War in Good Omens.

[Nathrad Sheare]

I really, REALLY like that one, jhollan2. A LOT.

Here's one by William Faulkner:

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Uplifting, isn't it?

[Timea]

”All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream” Edgar A. Poe

[Nathrad Sheare]

"Misery is manifold." Also E.A.P.

[raindropwriter]

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw

[toshilou]

"I hope that she's a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Fran]

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ... the great Samuel Beckett

[stoppoppingtheP]

"The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And as she held her sword, she smiled like a knife." Neil Gaiman's description of War in Good Omens.

wow this quote is beautiful. and powerful.

[raindropwriter]

"There's no such thing as luck. Just preparation for chance." - Evan Tyler (A happy accident)

[nina_brewer]

This is probably my favorite quote just because it is so relateable. I do fear change, as I'm sure many other people do.

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[ipekbunsal]

''We know what we are not what we may be''-Shakespeare

[annareads]

I really, REALLY like that one, jhollan2. A LOT.

Here's one by William Faulkner:

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Uplifting, isn't it?

Love that quote, LOVE Faulkner. To that, another "Between grief and nothing I will take grief."