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Paul Theroux quote: "My greatest inspiration is memory."

My greatest inspiration is memory.

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God had poked His finger down into my nerves and gently, almost without thinking, brought a little confusion among those threads. And God had pulled His finger back, and behold--there were filaments and fine rootlike threads on His finger from the threads of my nerves. And thereremained an open hole behind His finger which was the finger of God, and a wound in my brain behind the path of His finger. But after God had touched me with the finger of His hand, He let me be and touched me no... Knut Hamsun
Rachael Leigh Cook quote: "Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had..."
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer. Rachael Leigh Cook
Yeah and it's over before you know it. It all goes by so fast. Yeah the bad nights take forever. And the good nights don't ever seem to last Tom Petty
By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going to... Guy de Maupassant
C. S. Lewis quote: "Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates..."
Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun. C. S. Lewis
Thomas S. Monson quote: "We live so far below the level of our divine possibilities."
We live so far below the level of our divine possibilities. Thomas S. Monson
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel. Marcel Proust
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. Ronald Reagan
We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. Kim Il-sung
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success? in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure... Noam Chomsky
Mark Twain quote: "Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American."
Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American. Mark Twain
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. Matthew Henry
G. M. Trevelyan quote: "A little man often cast a long shadow."
A little man often cast a long shadow. G. M. Trevelyan
Laura Dern quote: "Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy..."
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. Laura Dern
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves. Adam Johnson