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So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired. Ivan Turgenev
Suzanne Collins quote: "You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug."
You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug. Suzanne Collins
But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said...but you said...and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could you leave me when you knew me? Toni Morrison
Edward Abbey quote: "The best thing about graduating from the university was that I..."
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Edward Abbey
I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife. Charlaine Harris
There is the subtler music, the clear light. Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand heavens: Lo, there are many gods whom we have seen, Folk of unearthly fashion, places splendid, Bulwarks of beryl and of chrysophrase. Sapphire Benacus, in thy mists and thee. Nature herself's turned metaphysical, Who can look at that blue and not believe? Ezra Pound
Salman Rushdie quote: "The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the..."
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. Salman Rushdie
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past. Oscar Wilde
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor. Cornelia Funke
Katharine Hepburn quote: "I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true."
I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true. Katharine Hepburn
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious... James Branch Cabell
Haruki Murakami quote: "Seabird tracks scattered about the surf's edge like pine..."
Seabird tracks scattered about the surf's edge like pine needles after a brisk wind. Haruki Murakami
It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform. Leighton Meester
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about. Chuck Palahniuk
Oscar Wilde quote: "the things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. ..."
the things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. that is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romanc Oscar Wilde

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