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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. – Annie Dillard

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

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Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? – Annie Dillard

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Life is so impermanent that its not about somebody else or things around me, its about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. – K. D. Lang

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Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. – Mira Nair

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Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. – Eliot Engel

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Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesnt try it on. – Billy Connolly

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I wish I had a great relationship with my mother. – Chely Wright

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My wife, whenever Id go off to work and Id be kind of anxious, shell say, Remember, have fun. Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and theres a lot of joy to be had wherever you are. – Jeff Bridges

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