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Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him."Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her."It takes a man with real heart"__e'd made a fist and laid it against his chest_"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

The more a man judges, the less he loves

Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall... you get crushed.

At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he__ ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else.

Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed the vote. It could be that the Borderer Presbyterian tradition of "stand up and say your rightful piece" contributed to the American notion that our gut-level but uninformed opinions are some sort of unvarnished foundational political truths. I have been told that this is because we redneck working-class Scots Irish suffer from what psychiatrists call "no insight".Consequently, we will never agree with anyone outside our zone of ignorance because our belligerent Borderer pride insists on the right to be dangerously wrong about everything while telling those who are more educated to "bite my ass!

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That__ what I like about coincidence.

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.

The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

We need a politician who hates politics.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another__ skin, another__ voice, another__ soul._ _