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The only other consistent thing in Billy’s life was his father. Billy didn’t call him that though. He’d always called him Pop. Billy’s Pop would have laughed at all that career day stuff. Pop didn’t have crazy hair but Billy was pretty sure he was a genius. Pop told him stuff they didn’t let you in on at school, like how there was supposed to be future stuff already, like moving sidewalks and monorails and jetpacks. Pop told him that the government had lied and screwed people out of all that stuff and the only reason we ever went to the moon was to bury Jimmy Hoffa up there. ↗

— Jesse James Freeman

#i-am-the-devil-bird #pop #life

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#except #own #stand #their #weapons

You're on a roll here, aren't you? Never thought I'd have a heckler while pouring out my heart and soul. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#age

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#life

But leaving is just something that happens in life. We all do it someday, one way or another. There's worse things than going away with the taste of love still fresh in our mouths. ↗

— Jenny Wingfield

#life

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic. ↗

— Richard Hammond

#life #my-story #on-the-edge #richard-hammond #life

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#life #living-life-to-the-full #love #life

Love your life and all around you... Love’s boomerang shall always return to you. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

لو كان العقل على قدر كلام الرجل، لكان الثرثار أكبر الناس عقلاً، ولو كان العلم على قدر حفظ المسائل لكان التلميذ أوسع من أستاذه علماً، ولو كان الجاه على قدر الفضائل لما كان للأشرار نفوذ، ولو كان المال على قدر العقل لكان أغنى الناس الحكماء، وأفقر الناس السفهاء، ولو كان الخلود على قدر نفع الناس لما خلد السفاحون والطغاة وأكثر الملوك والزعماء. ↗

— مصطفى السباعي

#learning-the-truth #life #life-lessons #philosophy #wisdom

There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying. "When that happens, you got to move quick and take advantage of the sitchiation or you'll never know what might have been." "How do I know when it's time to move quick?" L'il Pea asked. "When somethin' big happens and then somethin' else come up. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#walter-mosley #life