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• We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Men

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

  Libba Bray

  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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• What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Argument

  "Jailbird". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, p. 24, 1979.

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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

  Margaret Laurence

  Margaret Laurence (2010). “The Fire-Dwellers”, p.30, New Canadian Library

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

  Joe Meno

  Voice, Littles, Ears

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.283, Akashic Books

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• The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

  Eric Berne

  Destiny, Skulls, Humans

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• The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vacation, Average

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, Want, Ends

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.289, Random House

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• Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Foundation, Stories

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2006). “Gifts”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Vitality, Spending, Amused

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3754, Delphi Classics

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• In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

  Tracy Kidder

  Order, Strange, Ominous

  Tracy Kidder (2009). “Strength in What Remains”, p.111, Random House

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• He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Real, Heart

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fall, Heart, Order

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

  Wendell Berry

  Past, Hatred, Innovation

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• Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

  Rick Warren

  Inspirational, Life, Guidance

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• So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Long, Answers

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Strong, Fall, Heart

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• But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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• Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Want, Objections

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

  Nikolai Gogol

  Perfect, World, Sometimes

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.323, Vintage

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• No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Remember, Happens

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.181, Penguin

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• Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Offending, Way

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