Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I don't drink coffee.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
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A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
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It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
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Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
