"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter."

-- Norman Spinrad

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“I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.”
“The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely, burying his face in her fragrant hair. "Jenny, I love you." She melted against him, molding her body to the rigid contours of his, offering her lips up for his fierce, devouring kiss, then she took his face between both her hands. Leaning back slightly against his arm, her melting blue eyes gazing deeply into his, his wife replied in a shaky voice, "I think, my lord, I love you more.”
“Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 08, 2011
“I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.”

Source : "Journalist Robert MacNeil: 'Looking For My Country'". Interview With Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2003.
“Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.”
“Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.”
“The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.”
“the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.”

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