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Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere. Marguerite Yourcenar
Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain. Agatha Christie
The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she could not face; these gothic subterfuges represent the mind at a breaking point, frantic to find any way out. If the flaws are only to be attributed to the practicce of popular fiction of the time, we cannot then explain the large amount of genuine feeling that goes into them. They stand for the hidden wishes of an intolerable life. Elizabeth Hardwick
William Shakespeare quote: "Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop up my nose,..."
Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop up my nose, or against any man's metaphor. William Shakespeare
They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough. Henry James
He doesn't need any money , all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this. Jack Kerouac
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same Id look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today. Herman Hesse
Rudyard Kipling quote: "I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e..."
I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not. Rudyard Kipling
This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. Sylvia Plath
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die..."
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't. Chuck Palahniuk
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid lif? you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Neil Gaiman
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. Oscar Wilde
I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action Philip Larkin
I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later. Edgar Rice Burroughs
This old dead hero had one only daughter left of his race; a beauty that, to describe her truly, one need say only, she was female to the noble male; the beautiful black Venus to our young Mars; as charming in her person as he, and of delicate virtues. I have seen an hundred white men sighing after her, and making a thousand vows at her feet, all vain, and unsuccessful; and she was, indeed, too great for any, but a prince of her own nation to adore. Aphra Behn

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