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Margaret Atwood quote: "It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top...."

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

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Perhaps I am his hope. But then she is his present. And if she is his present, I am not his present. Therefore, I am not, and I wonder why no-one has noticed I am dead and taken the trouble to bury me. For I am utterly collapsed. I lounge with glazed eyes, or weep tears of sheer weakness. All people seem criminally irrelevant. I ignore everyone and everything, and, if crossed or interrupted in my decay, hate. Nature is only the irking weather and flowers crude reminders of stale states of being. Elizabeth Smart
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Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be. Donna Douglas
My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute. Rachel Weisz
Daniel Craig quote: "I had to have shoulder reconstruction."
I had to have shoulder reconstruction. Daniel Craig
Jules Shear quote: "I love to get people to sing and play together."
I love to get people to sing and play together. Jules Shear
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Diligence is the mother of good luck."
Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. Catherine II
I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans. John Osborne
This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish. Laurent Fabius
An awareness had come over him that he wasn’t going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. Anne Rice
A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next. Neale Donald Walsch
Spider Robinson quote: "He smiled like a sun lamp."
He smiled like a sun lamp. Spider Robinson
Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we? Dave Eggers
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And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater. Claire Forlani
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it. Alfred de Musset