Quotern

Quotern

When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.

-- Nizar Qabbani

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The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.

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The dead should not rule the living

-- Thomas Jefferson

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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

-- William Congreve

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The Dodgson family worshipped the God of Love, who showed his stern face only in the presence of evil.

-- Florence Becker Lennon

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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

-- Zooey Deschanel

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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

-- Pearl S. Buck

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One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

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I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

-- Annie Leibovitz

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The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.

-- Steve Maraboli

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