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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. Rick Bass

Life Age Old My Life Year Old Age Inside August July June Childhood Realize Suddenly Here

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. Robert A. Heinlein

Man Word Engineering Magic Supernatural Another

Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway. Robin Marantz Henig

Good Me Relatives Husband Few Good Friends Spend Some Like Know Well Handful Friends Very Close Anyway Happiest Who Moments

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. Sue Monk Kidd

Truth Forgiveness Time Heart Strange People Some People Long Long Time Difficult Evolution Would Some Something Rather Long Time Ago Learned Overnight Than Die Forgive Happens Process Painful

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. Terry Brooks

Travel Anger Hurt Bitterness Lost Too Way Road Leads Far

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann

Truth Truth Is Lie Better Harmful Than Useful

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Eyes World Looking Sense Others Through Self Contempt Looks Always Tape Sensation Pity Measuring Amused Peculiar

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. William S. Burroughs

Sometimes All The Facts Paranoia Having Facts Just

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs

Hope Change Desperation Everything Drastic Drastic Change Those Only Raw Raw Material Material Leave Escape Behind Who Believed Ever

There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed. Alain de Botton

Jealousy You Hurt People Opportunities Chaos Security Constant Inside Boring Excitement Tension Between Missed New Because Messy Go New People Very Person Die Gets Create

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead. Alice McDermott

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happiness Needs Joy Spring Flower Despair Security Like Cliffs Even

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Alone Grief Burden Own Sympathy Everyone Way Carries Shared His

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? Arthur C. Clarke

Man Youth World Half Abandon Restricted Something He True Idea Longer Schooling Knows How Been Discovered Where Things

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Arthur Conan Doyle

Work Me Intelligence Problems Mind Own Analysis Intricate Abhor Atmosphere Exaltation Mental Give Proper Give Me My Own Most Am Dull Existence Crave Stagnation Rebels Routine

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistake Before Data Capital

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand

Man Mind Everything Religious Highest Smallest Abstraction Attribute His Wheel Reasoning Skyscraper Function Necessity

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Cynthia Heimel

Creative Fool Yourself Idiot Doubt Hell Earth Gigantic Between Like Most Leap Make Line When In Doubt Being Acting Thin Brilliantly

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie

Happiness You Remember Depend Think Solely Depends Who

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. Douglas Adams

You Woman Face Country Every Type Laughs Threatening Adolescent Highly Particular Like Boy Up Australia Very Intelligent Jack Canada Jack Nicholson Person America Manner Your Engaging Hard Nicholson Right Belligerent

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