"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?"

-- Rebecca Harding Davis

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“But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.”

Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.
“I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.”
“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”
“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heardâ€¦”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1944). “The collected poems of William Alexander Percy”
“My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'”
“My ma told me that there isn't anything in this life worth having that comes easy. She told me that every road I walk down's gonna have a price. But what she didn't tell me and what I learned since I've been here is that if you don't choose the road you're gonna walk, sooner or later someone else'll do that choosing for you.”
“Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything.”

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