"The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive."

-- Kaye Gibbons

#Wish Quotes #Dying Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.”
“One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.”
“The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer”
“The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.”
“I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.”
“The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.”
“I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.”
“Learn from the masses, and then teach them.”

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