"I like any place that isn't here."

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Edna Ferber

#Dissatisfaction Quotes

“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”
“Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.”
“Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings”
“I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.”
“Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.”
“The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.”
“one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul”

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