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“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance �� as opposed to her ideas or actions �� isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot.”
― Erin Gloria Ryan

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“A person of “good character�� was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community”
― Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Queen of Dreams

“His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.”
― V. S. Naipaul, Half a Life

“Even love comes with its own season.. and relationships with their own kismets.They start through us, and then love loves through us. And when the give-and-take between two individuals is over, the relationship fades. Like a fruit that must fall from the bough if it is to carry its life into its next avatar. There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.”
― Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
― Joan Rivers

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”
― William Faulkner

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.”
― John Wayne

“What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary”
― Richard Harkness