Tamarillo Quotes & Sayings

We have been marching for the last one hundred and fifty years. We sacrifice our individual liberties, and sometimes we fail and suffer. Sometimes we divide into separate groups and our methods conflict, though we all aim at one common goal. The significant thing is that we march on without turning back. What we want is peace not violence, We know that we thrive and prosper only in peace. — Carlos Bulosan

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Making you believe what he wanted you to believe was his very reason for being. Maybe his only reason. I was intrigued by the way he turned events, or hints I had given him about people, into reality
that is, his kind of reality. This obsessive reinvention of the real never stopped, what-could-be having always to top what is.
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I began to wonder which was real, the woman in the book or the one I was pretending to be upstairs. Neither of them was particularly "me." I was acting just as much upstairs; I was not myself just as much Maria in the book was not myself. Perhaps she was. I began not to know which was true and which was not, like a writer who comes to believe that he's imagined what he hasn't.
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The book began living in me all the time, more than my everyday life. — Philip Roth

Unless the she-wolf agrees, there's always a chance of rejection. — Terry Spear

Three hours ago I was in bed, I thought miserably. I should have stayed there. — Diana Rowland

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us. — Orison Swett Marden

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator. — Laurie Anderson

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist - " "That's what you are, ain't it?" "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist." "Don't you all believe in foot-washing?" "We do. At home in the bathtub." "But we can't have communion with you all - — Harper Lee

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything. — Vanessa Mae

Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you. — John P. Clark

Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle. — Andrew Bonar

But even things that heal leave scars. — Diana Gabaldon

To fail at all is to fail utterly. — James Russell Lowell