"Brigid O'Shaughnessy: â€œI haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.â€ Sam Spade â€œYou know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere"

-- Dashiell Hammett

#Good Life Quotes #Innocent Quotes #Spades Quotes

“Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.”
“Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.”
“It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124
“This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.”
“Librarians are notorious snitchesâ€”donâ€™t let anybody convince you otherwise.”

Source : Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.90, Tom Upton
“I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.”
“My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.”
“Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.”

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