"I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird."

-- Harper Lee

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“Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.”

Source : "Love For Outsiders; Jacques Audiard On The Romantic Thriller 'Read My Lips'". Interview with Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. July 09, 2002.
“Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.”
“A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
“My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.”
“They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.”
“As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyrâ€™s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyrâ€™s death seems like normal obedience.”
“We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.”
“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

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