Kiersten White Quotes
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Think and grow rich.
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I can paint in jail.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.
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Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.
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Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
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The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.
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Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
