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Christopher Pike
"It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me."
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Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
Christopher Pike
#Matter Quotes
#Remember Quotes
#I Am What I Am Quotes
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“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.”
Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin
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“There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence.”
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“The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.”
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“What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.”
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“To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.”
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“The only things we keep permanently are those we give away,”
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“What, do they run already? Then I die happy.”
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“Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.”
Source : Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”
