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		It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Melissa Etheridge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brown Campbell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Bruce Cameron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katha Pollitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. C. Boyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Cole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Babasaheb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Osbourne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. A. Salvatore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zane Grey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. G. Sebald 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Candice Olson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lara Flynn Boyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Marano 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W Mitchell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orison Swett Marden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlene Tilton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Melissa Etheridge