"If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend."

-- Patricia Reilly Giff

“Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.”
“Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.”
“And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?”
“I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.”
“I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.”

Source : "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.
“Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.”
“It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.”
“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”

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