An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

Mary Deasy

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The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

Mary Deasy

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How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)

John Steinbeck

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Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

Gregory Maguire

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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Bob Dylan

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Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Terry Goodkind

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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

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There's so few things men can talk about. If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

Truman Capote

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I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.

Yann Martel

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