Gemma Files Quotes
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
Quotes to Explore
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.
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Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving.
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It is said that when you miss someone... then love will come when you meet again... Just like the game of hide and seek, no matter where it hides or even if you can't see it... He must be there waiting somewhere for me...Amid the countless chaos... Just like the sincerest prayers... two people in love will surely meet again.
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Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
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It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.
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I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.
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Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
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I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
