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2007-12-14T22:26:00.001-08:00

A despairing, shell-shocked war soldier in Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’:

“Twenty two years old,weak,hot,frightened,not daring to acknowledge the fact that he didn’t even know who or what he was…with no past, no language, no tribe, no source, no address book, no comb, no pencil, no clock, no pocket handkerchief, no rug, no bed, no can opener, no faded postcard, no soap, no key, no tobacco pouch, no soiled underwear and nothing nothing nothing to do…”

ALEXANDER POPE

2007-09-18T14:28:00.000-07:00

People should never be ashamed to own they have been in the wrong,which is but to say they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

JOHN P ROCHE

2007-09-18T14:24:00.000-07:00

In politics,a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

W C FILEDS

2007-09-18T14:23:00.000-07:00

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

CHESTER BOWLES

2007-09-18T14:21:00.000-07:00

Government is too big and important to be left to politicians.

B F SKINNER

2007-09-18T14:16:00.001-07:00

Education is what survives when what you have learnt has been forgotten.

GOETHE

2007-09-18T14:12:00.000-07:00

They who seize the right moment,are the right people.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

2007-09-18T14:10:00.000-07:00

Don't tell your friends their social faults,they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT

2007-09-18T14:08:00.000-07:00

The act of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

WILLIAM BLAKE

2007-09-18T14:06:00.000-07:00

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies that you can invent.

VOLTAIRE

2007-09-18T14:02:00.000-07:00

Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.

SENECA

2007-09-18T13:57:00.000-07:00

Many persons might have attained wisdom,had they not assumed that they already possessed it.

UNKNOWN

2007-09-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

There is so much good in the worst of us
And there is so much bad in the best of us
That it ill behoves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Whether there is a heaven or not,let us deserve one.

OSCAR WILDE

2007-09-17T12:38:00.000-07:00

The worst thing about having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

TONI MORRISON

2007-09-17T12:36:00.000-07:00

Definitons belong to the definers,not to the defined.

ROBERT BROWNING

2007-09-17T12:33:00.000-07:00

Reach for something beyond your grasp.

MARK TWAIN

2007-09-17T12:31:00.000-07:00

No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

EMERSON

2007-09-17T12:27:00.000-07:00

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying.