"when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?"

-- Janet Frame

#Giving Quotes #What If Quotes #Diaries Quotes

“You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 16, 2016
“God's mercy on you degenerate swine.”
“We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.”
“She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Mammoth Hunters (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Three”, p.53, Bantam
“What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.”
“Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.”

Source : "Thies: Ew, Virginia! E.W. Jackson" by Chuck Thies, www.nbcwashington.com. June 26, 2013.
“But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!”

Source : George Arnold, “Beer”
“Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.”

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