"Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own."

-- Barbara Delinsky

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“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”

Source : John Morrison, Frida Kahlo (2003). “Frida Kahlo”, p.87, Infobase Publishing
“We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.”
“I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?”
“In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.”

Source : Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.237, ReadHowYouWant.com
“At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us a living reality. When the magical powers of sound are rediscovered and scientifically directed to the specific purpose of healing... and when man has learned how to release the mantraic powers embodied in such inspired utterances, he will master the energies transcending even those unleashed by the atomic physicist of today. They will be energies of yet another and higher dimension.”
“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”

Source : Claire Cook (2015). “Seven Year Switch”, p.222, Marshbury Beach Books
“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
“Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.”

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