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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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If there was a circle, I was never a part of it. I prowled the periphery.
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You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
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It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.
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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
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We were so poor that if we woke up on Christmas day without an erection, we had nothing to play with.
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There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
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Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
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If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
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Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
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They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
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I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
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A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone — Angela's Ashes.
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The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.
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Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
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If I went to the pub lunch and cleared my head with a pint surely there would be an insight, a flash of inspiration. Surely. My money went over the bar. The pint came back. Nothing else.
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Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
August 19, 1930
Died:
July 19, 2009
(aged 78)
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