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"On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor."


"The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple."

"It was a mild winter's evening in 'Japp's Saloon and Speakeasy', in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn't enjoy jokes about his name much."

"Hi, my name is Cuelebre, Liam Cuelebre. My code name is Double Oh Peanut, but you can call me Rock Star for short."

"Remember that things are not always as they appear to be. Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities."

"Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road."

"We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team."


"The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made."


"There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting."

"Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don't be ashamed of the things that you've done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don't you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that you are today! Hold your head up high because you didn't allow your past mistakes to consume you. You learned! You conquered! You became a better YOU. Be proud of who you are TODAY!"


"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."

"Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come."

"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."

"I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad."Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. "Really, sweetheart?""Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels...I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even...good."

"When you put on a new cloth with the same attitude, you are only changing the diet that goes into the same stomach!"

"Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead," Ronan replied."

"I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are."

"And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood."

"Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world."

"If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast."

"If not to shape me into a better man; a better husband, a better father, a better son, a better brother, a better friend. then all of my experience, success, and education will have been a selfish waste."

"It's not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas-you must initiate action."


"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."

"Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete."

"No one is perfect. We all have weaknesses and limitations. Some can't be fixed. But, at least, a leader shouldn't find herself blindsided..."

"Have you made a choice in your past which was right at the time, but once you had a chance to think about it, you wished you could reverse your decision or amend it? Rethinking gives you permission to use your thoughts to change your mind. Take what is and spin it around to give you a new review and fresh perspective."


"No matter what situations you experience in life, think about them as you draw conclusions about what the situations means for you."


"Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take."

"Suicides - you read of it-but you don't know the truth, if you were to see it you would go insane! Cut throats, cut wrists, hangings, suffocating, eyes bulging and tongues protruding, more shit. Suicides always shit themselves, did you know that! Life's final shit, the final act of madness; smell that you rats! Clean me up you pigs, zip me up in the bag you scum and get me out of here- Get me the fuck out of here-get me out!"

"She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!"

"I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Few words that talk much. Few words that can make people ponder to wonder. Few words that are indelible. Few words that can leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though we may fail to mind our words, we shall never fail to mind the works of our words."


"Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams."

"All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe."

"Sometimes being indifferent solves everything."

"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."
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