Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!
BEATRICE SPARKS
BEATRICE SPARKS
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Beatrice Sparks31 quotes“Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!”
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks I can’t believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it’s only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus “Not me! I didn’t think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks She didn’t know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
Beatrice SparksBeatrice Sparks Maybe the new me will be different.
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Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
Bill WattersonBill Watterson We don’t have any power of creation – we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.
Bill MollisonBill Mollison They’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
John BergerJohn Berger I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
Carson McCullersCarson McCullers The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
Dag HammarskjoldDag Hammarskjold Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
Bhagat SinghBhagat Singh