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I closed my eyes and I thought of the lash of her skirt snapping around her as she danced one evening in a bar on the South Side to a jukebox that was playing “Barefootin’,” of the downy slope of her neck and the declivity in her nightgown as she bent to wash her face in the bathroom sink, of a tuna salad sandwich she’d handed me one windy afternoon as we sat at a picnic table in Lucia, California, and looked out for the passage of whales, and I felt that I loved Emily insofar as I loved... Michael Chabon
Steig Larsson quote: "She went around with the attitude that she would rather be..."
She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit. Steig Larsson
He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors. Dan Brown
Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you! Cher
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people. George Saunders
Thomas Moore quote: "I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a..."
I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work. Thomas Moore
All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more. Betty Smith
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they..."
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do, their victims lie strewn around. Elizabeth Bowen
It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good. Steven Brust
The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise. James Wilson
Deepak Chopra quote: "Curving back within myself I create the world around me..."
Curving back within myself I create the world around me... Deepak Chopra
Dodie Smith quote: "I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated..."
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... Dodie Smith
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. Don DeLillo

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