"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.”
“More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick each and every crumb right off the plate. That was Jack Pallas.”
“We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.”
“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.”
“So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field”
“Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.”
“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.”

Source : Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.155, Da Capo Press
“Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.”

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