"I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade."

-- Wilson Rawls

#Oil Quotes #White Quotes #Long Quotes

“My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.”
“Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.”
“When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.”
“It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.”
“Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.18
“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”
“Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.”
“People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.”

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