Wendell Berry Quotes
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
