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“This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.”
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“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
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“I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.”
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“Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!”
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“It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?”
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“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.”
Source : Adam Rapp (2006). “The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel”, p.390, Macmillan
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“Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.”
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“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”
Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber
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“The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.”
Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage
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“A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.”
