"It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect."

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Dorothy Allison

#Fun Quotes #People Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Well, my dad (Ken Griffey) taught me that there's three parts. There's hitting, there's defense, and there's baserunning. And as long as you keep those three separated, you're going to be a good player. I mean, you can't take your defense on the bases, you can't take your hitting to the field, and you can't take your baserunning at the plate. But defense, is number one.”
“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”
“There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.”
“Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet
“Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices ...”
“It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.”
“History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.”
“'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.”

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