"One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried."

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Source : Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

Eleanor Porter

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“We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.”

Source : "The Society of Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 1986.
“I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.”
“I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'”
“Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.”
“The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.69, Vintage
“It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”
“This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.”
“It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive.”

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