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Neil Gaiman quote: "I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing..."
I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there. Neil Gaiman
J. D. Salinger quote: "I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible,..."
I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it. J. D. Salinger
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the..."
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing. David Herbert Lawrence
Bees buzzed in the bean blossoms. And the sun beat down on the upturned shell of Om. There is also a hell for tortoises. He was too tired to waggle his That was all you could do, waggle your legs. And stick your head out as far as it would go and wave it about in the hope that you could lever yourself over. Terry Prachett
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at,..."
and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
My apartment's only about a block away."Isn't that handy."Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?"One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours. Nora Roberts
I mean, he decided we'd be better apart, you know? it wasn't a joint decision. like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me, i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions. James Patterson
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. Oscar Wilde
I don't want any inheritance from my father. Do whatever the hell you want with it." "Wrong. You can do what you want with the inheritance. My job is to see to it that you have the opportunity to do so." "I don't want a single ore from that pig." "Then give the money to the Greenpeace or something." "I don't give a shit about whales. Steig Larsson
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat...I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had... Sylvia Plath
When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy Charlotte Bronte
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value. Ayn Rand
[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate. Terry Tempest Williams
He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts. The term was part of the process that the device was meant to replace. It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated. Don DeLillo
You are an amazing person, and I don't know where the feelings that you give me come from. What I do know is that I am completely and utterly into you and I want time to freeze so I can be with you all the time and not have to think of anything else at all. I like literally everything about you, including the way your face shows everything you're thinking and especially the way it looks when we are together and your hair is back and your eyes are closed and your lips are open just a little... Emily Giffin

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