The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.
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The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.
You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
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