If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it. - Storm Jameson

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I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

Storm Jameson

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

Chance, Dismembering, Dying, Novel, Revive

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Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

Failures, Irredeemable, Irremediable, Love

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

Backwards, Benefits, Long, Past, Step, Time

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

Conviction, Grief, Loss, Settled, Thinking

. . . we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.

Charged, Effect, Emotion, People, Remember

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

Impermanence, Lasts, Nothing, Sorrow

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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

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Sean Duffy

If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.

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Meredith Vieira

I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

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The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

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I just rocked the eye chart, So if you can't see it, now you know it by heart.

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