Quotern

Quotern

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

-- Lucan

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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Small Moth...She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again.

-- Sarah Lindsay

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If you have sixty seconds worth of distance...run!

-- Chris Stevenson

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It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

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But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

-- Luther Allison

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I once devised a test question which I put to many people to discover whether they were pessimists. The question was: If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

-- Bertrand Russell

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As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

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Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.

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We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.

-- Michelle Obama

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