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“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
Warren Buffett
“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”
Will Rogers
“Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.”
Colin Powell
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.”
Wesley Clark
“I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a.m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a.m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a.m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology.”
Mitch Hedberg
“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Well, winter's gonna endI'm gonna clean these veins againSo close to dying that I finally can start living”
Conor Oberst