"I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted."

-- Orson Scott Card

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“Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.”

Source : Ron Franscell (2000). “Angel Fire”, Berkley
“My whole life has been the skate life. I don't really remember doing anything besides skateboarding.”
“I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”
“People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.”
“Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.”
“Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.”
“It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.”
“I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.”

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