Winston Groom Quotes
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
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I see euro/dollar testing the $1.1870 low in the next couple of weeks as there is no easy solution to this.
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
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We sailed for more days than I knew how to count, sometimes hugging the mainland coast, sometimes passing from one island to another over the waves. The summer weather blessed us with clear skies and tame waters. We did have a couple of times when we had to put in to shore quickly to wait out a thunderstorm. I think Zeus didn’t want our quest to become too comfortable.
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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
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Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.
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My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
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The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.
