"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

Robert Fulghum, American Author

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"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

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Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."

Peter Dawson, Australian Musician

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"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

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