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It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case. Paramahansa Yogananda
Jodi Picoult quote: "This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All..."
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay. Jodi Picoult
I wake up, but where? I don't just think this, I actually voice the question to myself: "Where am I?" As if I didn't know: I'm here. In my life. A feature of the world that is my existence. Haruki Murakami
Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, "We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. Laurell K. Hamilton
Douglas Adams quote: "Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention..."
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Douglas Adams
Ridley Scott quote: "I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to..."
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid. Ridley Scott
They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. E. M. Forster
Robert M. Pirsig quote: "To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was..."
To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. Robert M. Pirsig
I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful. Anne Rice
His gaze on mine was completely steady and unblinking, and there was an upward curl at the corners of his mouth . . . he was smiling like he was actually enjoying this. But I couldn't help feeling as if, behind those blue eyes, there was a different Christopher – the old Christopher – begging me to call him on his asinine behavior. To say, I'm asking for your help now. Will you help us? Will you help me? Only I didn't. Because I was too angry with him. Why was he acting like such a... Meg Cabot
Robert Cormier quote: "They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless..."
They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too. Robert Cormier
(Plants on the disc, while including the categories known commonly as annuals, which were sown this year to come up later this year, biennials, sown this year to grow next year, and perennials, sown this year to grow until further notice, also included a few rare re-annuals which, because of an unusual four-dimensional twist in their genes, could be planted this year to come up last year. The vul nut vine was particularly exceptional in that it could flourish as many as eight years prior to... Terry Prachett
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. Hunter S. Thompson
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I wondered? would a bullet through my temple actually kill me..."
I wondered? would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? (Jacob) Stephenie Meyer
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time. Michael Cunningham

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