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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
- See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
- One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
- Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
- I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
- If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway
- Love can be sordid only if you work at it.
- Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane, 05-10-2006
- To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
- Cynthia Ozick
- How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Viscount Morley
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
- Good habits result from resisting temptation.
- Ancient Proverb
- Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
- If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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