Barbara Ann Kipfer · 610 pages
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“sleeping sprawled out on the bed”
― Barbara Ann Kipfer, quote from 14,000 Things to Be Happy About
“singing to the radio when you drive”
― Barbara Ann Kipfer, quote from 14,000 Things to Be Happy About
“hot breakfast on a cold winter morning”
― Barbara Ann Kipfer, quote from 14,000 Things to Be Happy About
“not just seizing the day but making the day”
― Barbara Ann Kipfer, quote from 14,000 Things to Be Happy About
Barbara Ann Kipfer
Born place: in La Porte, Indiana, The United States
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“It is not true that the more you love, the better you understand; all that the action of love obtains from me is merely this wisdom: that the other is not to be known; his opacity is not the screen around a secret, but. instead, a kind of evidence in which the game of reality and appearance' is done away with. I am then seized with that exaltation of loving someone unknown, someone who will re-
main so forever: a mystic impulse: I know what I do not know.”
― Roland Barthes, quote from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“He needs the Lord, but I think right now God scares him.” Jim exhaled hard. “As if he knows God’s chasing him, and he’s determined to run until he hits a brick wall.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Reunion
“Marrying cousins was astoundingly common into the nineteenth century, and nowhere is this better illustrated than with the Darwins and their cousins the Wedgwoods (of pottery fame). Charles married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, daughter of his beloved Uncle Josiah. Darwin's sister Caroline, meanwhile, married Josiah Wedgwood III, Emma's brother and the Darwin siblings' joint first cousin. Another of Emma's brothers, Henry, married not a Darwin but a first cousin from another branch of his own Wedgwood family, adding another strand to the family's wondrously convoluted genetics. Finally, Charles Langton, who was not related to either family, first married Charlotte Wedgwood, another daughter of Josiah and cousin of Charles, and then upon Charlotte's death married Darwin's sister Emily, thus becoming, it seems, his sister-in-law's sister-in-law's husband and raising the possibility that any children of the union would be their own first cousins.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“The thought constructed itself a piece at a time, like an incomplete jigsaw. Think, don't panic.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Long Earth
“As soon as you begin to think, you can no longer love life”
― Ágota Kristóf, quote from The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
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