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Quote by Herman Melville

“Smiling is the chosen vehicle of ambiguities.”

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Herman Melville was a renowned 19th-century American novelist known for his profound psychological descriptions and unique literary style. His masterpiece, 'Moby-Dick', is considered a classic of American literature. more

“Honestly, you make one tiny mistake and they hold it over you for the rest of your days!' 'You started World War I!' 'That is a LIE, sir! ...War was inevitable anyway, but what was i supposed to do--let that swindler Ferdinand get away with cheating me in cards? I think NOT!' He shook his fist in a comically threatening gesture.”

Beezlebub

Book:Out of the Shadows

Source: Out of the Shadows

“The messages that have been played to us all our lives have had a powerful influence in forming our thoughts about life.”

Hope Healing Trauma Rejection Abandonment Multiple Marriage

Book:Where's My Husband?: Ending the Cycles of Marriage and Divorce Bringing Hope, Healing, and a Fresh Beginning

Source: Where's My Husband?: Ending the Cycles of Marriage and Divorce Bringing Hope, Healing, and a Fresh Beginning

“Okay, I have unfrozen the humans and adjusted their memories.' Beezlebub pouted. 'Buzzkill--I was just giving the people what they wanted.' Thor's look-a-like rolled his eyes. 'I do not believe singing along to a '90s rap song should have been construed as an invitation to turn them to ice.”

Raphael Beezlebub

Book:Out of the Shadows

Source: Out of the Shadows

“It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of.”

Counting Stars David Almond

Book:Counting Stars

Source: Counting Stars

“Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.”

Counting Stars David Almond

Book:Counting Stars

Source: Counting Stars

“Me great achievement is that I have been happy, that I've never been nowt but happy”

Happiness David Almond Harry Miller S Run

Book:Harry Miller's Run

Source: Harry Miller's Run

“A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be an unwise thing to spend twenty of those in mapping out a plan of living and putting himself under rule; for he would do more with the ten well-arranged years than with the whole thirty if he spent them at random. There is much truth in that saying. A man will do little by firing off his gun if he has not learned to take aim.”

Philosopher Charles Spurgeon C H Spurgeon

Author:C.H. Spurgeon

“We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable.”

Grateful Dead

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.”

Grateful Dead

Author:John Barlow

“My Mom and Dad had been drinking beer having a good time when suddenly, Dad thought it was time to teach me how to swim, so… he threw me overboard, in the deep end of the harbor.”

Inspirational Real Hope Raw

Book:Where's My Husband?: Ending the Cycles of Marriage and Divorce Bringing Hope, Healing, and a Fresh Beginning

Source: Where's My Husband?: Ending the Cycles of Marriage and Divorce Bringing Hope, Healing, and a Fresh Beginning

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