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if there is one question i dread, to which i have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am i doing. Samuel Beckett
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its..."
I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts. Friedrich Nietzsche
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "I am my own rakish seducer. I do serve as my own surly,..."
I am my own rakish seducer. I do serve as my own surly, brutish bounder. Chuck Palahniuk
J. K. Rowling quote: "Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines..."
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick") J. K. Rowling
My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I always try to put across an idea that I feel is important, in the most easily readable form I can manage. This has annoyed some of my academic colleagues, who feel that I am oversimplifying my subject, but I argue that at least my writings are widely read, while theirs stay firmly within the confines of their academic ivory towers. And I always work with one special rule in mind:... Desmond Morris
You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per hour in a thirty-mile zone... if they've never sped up when they saw that yellow light. And when you find that single, sorry person who hasn't taken a misstep, that one person with the right to judge me, you tell him he's just as human as I am. That tomorrow, his world could turn upside down and... Jodi Picoult
Franz Kafka quote: "What am I doing here in this endless winter?"
What am I doing here in this endless winter? Franz Kafka
Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I make more money than you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workin or a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?' And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars,... Jack Kerouac
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought William Shakespeare
You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am. Nicholas Sparks
Suzanne Collins quote: "ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since..."
ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am. Suzanne Collins
By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. "I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them. Suzanne Collins
Beverly Cleary quote: "I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus."
I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. Beverly Cleary
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I may not be a human, but I am a man."
I may not be a human, but I am a man. Stephenie Meyer
A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out. Kristin Chenoweth

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