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101 " Marriages tended to harden like arteries.. "
― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered
102 " This is why we have families.... So we never have to go a single day without worrying ourselves sick. "
103 " History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors. "
104 " I always hated the sound of that. Polly Sigh. It sounds like mass hysteria in a sorority house.” “Or one of those inflatable sex dolls.” Still he read. "
105 " Putana thalassa pou se gamoun ta psaria.” Meaning, “whore ocean where all the fish fuck each other. "
106 " I hear America singing! Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs! "
107 " Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it.” “To stand in the clear light of day, "
108 " After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Well Dressed Man with a Beard "
109 " These are more dangerous times than we ever have known. "
110 " She was the crisis handler, he was the evader. "
111 " No man wants to hear he has been a fool. "
112 " Growth every quarter is the only success that matters to investors. The drive to expand is the engine of the economy. "
113 " I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” Both kids stared at Willa. They looked so alike. “It’s from My Àntonia. By Willa Cather. Mama’s favorite book. "
114 " A wife had greater wants, naturally, and could do nothing to help her own situation. "
115 " So much of life with infirmity came down to dignity and will. "
116 " Crisis is opportunity. "
117 " In a world of people who either let things happen or made them happen, these kids were instigators "
118 " what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom. "