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“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it.”

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Book:The Grapes of Wrath
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“Despite their depressing circumstances, the Hernandez family had a certain dignity and strength about them. They were Christians, and they taught their children that God loved them and had a plan for their lives. Their little boy, David, internalized that message of hope. He never thought of himself as a victim even though he had every reason to feel cheated. His family was at the bottom of the social ladder without even a house to live in, but his worth as an individual was rooted in his faith.”

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Book:Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
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“On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song, As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future. A vast similitude interlocks all, All distances of place however wide, All distances of time, All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, All nations, All identities that have existed or may exist All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future, This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd, And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.”

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Book:Leaves of Grass
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“Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.”

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Book:Nothing is here...
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“People who fell in love at first sight, rushed home to their parents to tell them the good news and subsequently married were, [Patricia Highsmith] thought, retarded. Rather, a more honest appraisal of the nature of love positions it nearer to the horrors of mental illness. How else could you explain the fact that so many people were prepared to sacrifice the safety and cosiness of their lives for the thrill of a new romance?”

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Book:Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι
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“There is no failure when there are decisions. But I often see that what prevents us from moving forward in a decision is it that we can’t stop procrastinating in our tasks… We keep wondering for days maybe even years if that decision is true, or a fading of reason. Failure is failing. It may be the crucial factor for some people to decide and follow it. 5% of the people who so decide are the most fulfilling people. While the remaining 95% do not leave the place? Why do not you diligently follow the science of true decisions? Which is "change the plan to reach the goal". We must ask ourselves why that decision matters. What depth will it bring to our lives in 10 years? We must make more decisions, be more frequent in our choices. This greatly strengthens future decisions and enables a lasting fulfillment for our lives. So, what do we do? Anything. If we just do not sit down and wait, we will we screw up the ideas, rethink and start over. Try something else. If we wait until we are satisfied with all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

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Author:Alan Maiccon
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