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Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#looking-forward #moving-forward #past-and-present #life

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

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Want a better life? Make better decisions. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

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Is it impossible to believe that I think a day will come where I’ll be held accountable for each life I’ve taken, every drop of blood I’ve spilled . . . and yet I continue to do whatever is necessary to keep my people? ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

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I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't. ↗

— Angeline Trevena

#writing #writing-life #life

Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness. ↗

— Zadie Smith

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I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#crazy #humor #james #life

I've had enough of this life of waiting for someone's permission. ↗

— Frank Lee

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At 6:15 she was standing on her front porch watering gardenias and watching another line of thunderstorms split and go around her. The same thing happened almost every day. Some days they came so close all she could smell was the rain. The wind whipped up dust from the fields until it drove like buckshot into the shuddering mesquites, and Clara Nell started to pray. 'Jesus,' she whispered. 'Jesus, Jesus....' But the only thing that came out of the sky was her topsoil. Every day the wind took a little more, and it hadn't rained in almost a year. ↗

— Andrew Geyer

#drought #emotional-pain #farming #heat #rural-life

Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people, because if it was the other way around good people would become bad and bad people would become good. ↗

— Brittany Hamilton

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