"Idiots vs. Fools [10w] Idiots listen to other's bullshit;fools listen to their own."
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"O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?"
"Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love."
"I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt."
"But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done."
"It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world."
"Credo of a Substitute Teacher I'm a 'sugar free' substitute teacher.I speak frankly and never gave any of my studentsa single word of encouragement.Why should I? Even after 10 years the school hasn't given me a pension, health insurance or paid sick leave.So fuck 'em.Fuck 'em all."
"She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing… "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim."
"You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ."
"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival."
"Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true"
"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"
"I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot."
"The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour."
"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."
"What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."
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