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- I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.
- Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
- In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
- Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
- You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all. - Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72
- Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
- In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Parts of Animals
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