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Sinclair Lewis quote: "You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how..."
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath. Sinclair Lewis
If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant. Seth Godin
Nicholas Sparks quote: "The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't..."
The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all . Nicholas Sparks
...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. P. G. Wodehouse
Nicholas Sparks quote: "When I told you that ?d pray for you, what did you think I was..."
When I told you that ?d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about? Nicholas Sparks
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Then again, there had always been something not quite right..."
Then again, there had always been something not quite right about the Berglunds. Jonathan Franzen
You should not be esteemed by others if you have no real inner virtue. People here in Japan esteem others on the basis of outward appearances, without knowing anything about real inner virtue; so students lacking the spirit of the Way are dragged down into bad habits and become subject to temptation. Dogen Zenji
A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to educate your children and then endangers their lives to get them into school? Betty Smith
She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter. Alice Hoffman
Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed Tad Williams
Had they nothing else to say to each other? Yet their eyes were full of more serious statements; and while they sought for commonplace sentences, they each felt the same languor. It was like a murmur of the soul, profound and continuous, dominating that of the voices. Surprised at this unexpected sweetness, it did not occur to them to discuss the sensation or discover the cause. Future happiness, like tropical shores, projects over the vastness that precedes it, its innate indolence, and... Gustave Flaubert
Any first rate novel or story must have in it the strength of a dozen fairly good stories that have been sacrificed to it. A good workman can't be a cheap workman; he can't be stingy about wasting material, and he cannot compromise. Excerpt taken from On the Art of Fiction by Willa Cather circa 1920. Willa Cather
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on. Haruki Murakami
Terence McKenna quote: "There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's..."
There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's just hard as hell to talk about! Terence McKenna
Michael Cunningham quote: "One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it..."
One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs. Michael Cunningham

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