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Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations Picture Quote #1

I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up Picture Quote #1

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I’d like to know. I wish someone could tell me Picture Quote #1

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us Picture Quote #1

... I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That’s what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do Picture Quote #1

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust? Picture Quote #1

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Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it’s the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it’s the choices we don’t make Picture Quote #1

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don’t want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect Picture Quote #1

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer Picture Quote #1

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger Picture Quote #1

For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure Picture Quote #1

I remember that feeling of skin. It’s strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it Picture Quote #1

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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on Picture Quote #1

If you don’t mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford Picture Quote #1

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to Picture Quote #1

If I’m away from you for more than an hour, I can’t stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself... I know you don’t believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I’d want to be your knight in shining armor. You’ve been through so much. I don’t want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain Picture Quote #1

She’s talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take Picture Quote #1

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate Picture Quote #1

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I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she’s pregnant and in love with a man who’ll never love her the way she loves him. It’s a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much Picture Quote #1

He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time Picture Quote #1

Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It’s only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That’s the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there’s no going back. It’s at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life Picture Quote #1

Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you’ll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it’s also about accepting that there’s a risk that you’ll love more than you are loved Picture Quote #1

Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence Picture Quote #1

It’s funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl’s clothes cost more than the girl inside them? Picture Quote #1

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How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn’t keep and should never have spoken aloud. That’s how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I’d ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever Picture Quote #1

I’ve begun to think that we sit far more than we’re supposed to... Why else would we have feet? Picture Quote #1

He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day’s agenda, and arriving punctually at their destination, that the land beyond the car had been no more than a wash of one green, and a backdrop of one hill. Life was very different when you walked through it Picture Quote #1

I know a helluva lot. I’m not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That’s fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It’s confusing Picture Quote #1

Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now Picture Quote #1

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore Picture Quote #1

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Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations (More Than Quotes) I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up (More Than Quotes) There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I’d like to know. I wish someone could tell me (More Than Quotes) When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us (More Than Quotes) ... I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That’s what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do (More Than Quotes) Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust? (More Than Quotes) Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it’s the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it’s the choices we don’t make (More Than Quotes) I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don’t want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect (More Than Quotes) It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer (More Than Quotes) Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger (More Than Quotes) For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure (More Than Quotes) I remember that feeling of skin. It’s strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it (More Than Quotes) While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on (More Than Quotes) If you don’t mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford (More Than Quotes) Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to (More Than Quotes) If I’m away from you for more than an hour, I can’t stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself... I know you don’t believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I’d want to be your knight in shining armor. You’ve been through so much. I don’t want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain (More Than Quotes) She’s talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take (More Than Quotes) Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate (More Than Quotes) I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she’s pregnant and in love with a man who’ll never love her the way she loves him. It’s a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much (More Than Quotes) He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time (More Than Quotes) Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It’s only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That’s the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there’s no going back. It’s at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life (More Than Quotes) Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you’ll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it’s also about accepting that there’s a risk that you’ll love more than you are loved (More Than Quotes) Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence (More Than Quotes) It’s funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl’s clothes cost more than the girl inside them? (More Than Quotes) How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn’t keep and should never have spoken aloud. That’s how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I’d ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever (More Than Quotes) I’ve begun to think that we sit far more than we’re supposed to... Why else would we have feet? (More Than Quotes) He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day’s agenda, and arriving punctually at their destination, that the land beyond the car had been no more than a wash of one green, and a backdrop of one hill. Life was very different when you walked through it (More Than Quotes) I know a helluva lot. I’m not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That’s fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It’s confusing (More Than Quotes) Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now (More Than Quotes) Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore (More Than Quotes)

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