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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
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That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
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Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.
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They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I'm made Nothing.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.
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If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life's just begun I know you feel it too
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Walter Dean Myers |
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I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?
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Walter Dean Myers |
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The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.
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People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth...But it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special...I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way--you know, some of those Asian people say they don't kill nothing, but they'll take a fish out of w..
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And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
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Walter Dean Myers |
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But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
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Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin
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Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' --Fletch
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Walter Dean Myers |
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My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.
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Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
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Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
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I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?
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Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.
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Life is going to be harder for some people. It's going to be harder at different times in our lives. But if you're not ready to die today, then you're going to be responsible for tomorrow, whether you like it or not.
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There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.
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In a way it was like a bunch of guys in a game. They were falling behind every minute that passed, but they had lost interest in the score. It was as if they were just a ton behind and had given up on the win. And maybe deep inside they didn't want to peep the score, maybe they knew what was happening but just didn't want to think about it anymore. I could understand that. I had played enough ball in my life, and was deep enough into my gam..
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Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. --Mr. Hooft
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She is the only rose that doesn't smell of plastic
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Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.
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Walter Dean Myers |
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I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.
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Love came to me, but it Just wasn't for me. It touched my heart and left it Lying on the shore, and Love smiled at me, but it Just wasn't for me. It glanced my way with pity, but I soon knew it had other plans. Once again my heart was broken; I was all alone to Mourn. --Carmen, singing the reprise to "Love Has Flown Away"
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Walter Dean Myers |
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pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure
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