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“At the end of my suffering/there was a door.”
Source : "Wild Iris". Book by Louise Glück, therumpus.net. November 1, 1993. 
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“There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.”
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“A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate.”
Source : "Kick in the Tush Club: Reinvent Your Life" by Janice Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2009.
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“I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.”
Source : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.
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“Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.”
Source : Stephen Collins Foster (2010). “Stephen Foster & Co: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs”
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“Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, there’s little you can do about it. Jesus’ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure it’s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.”
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“Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.”
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“War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine...War is hell.”
