"Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home."

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Source : Lenora Mattingly Weber (1970). “How Long Is Always?”, Ty Crowell Company

Lenora Mattingly Weber

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“What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.”
“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.”
“I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.”
“You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.”
“The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.”

Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274
“I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.”
“I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.”
“Self-love is born out of love of another.”

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