"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, / A melody of extemporanea; / And love is a thing that can never go wrong; / And I am Marie of Roumania "

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"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live."

Parker, Dorothy on suicide
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"This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force."

Parker, Dorothy on books - reading
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

Parker, Dorothy on dress   

"They sicken at the calm that know the storm."

Parker, Dorothy on adversity
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"For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections."

Pilgrim, Peace on vision
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"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."

Pilgrim, Peace on speakers and speaking   

"The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems."

Pilgrim, Peace on problems
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"Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God."

Pilgrim, Peace on prayer
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"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."

Pilgrim, Peace on possessions
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Benjamin, Walter on relationship
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