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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal. A. A. Milne
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land. Charles Darwin
...our heads, the little globes which hold the midnight sky and the shining, invisible universes of thought, have been taken about as much for granted as the growth of a yellow pumpkin in the fall. Loren Eiseley
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never..."
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to teach. Yet all are called Christians, have been baptized, and enjoy the use of the Sacrament, although they know neither the Lord's Prayer, nor the Creed, nor the Ten Commandments... Martin Luther
I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along. I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage. Ken Kesey
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "All these years, I've been opening the window and making love..."
All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world. Kurt Vonnegut
George R. R. Martin quote: "Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like."
Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like. George R. R. Martin
But how just it has been! And how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience... Daniel Defoe
There was my life before I told a strange woman in a negligee that I was a homosexual, and now there would be my life after, two chapters so dissimilar in style and content that they might have been written by different people. David Sedaris
And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of ‘personality’. Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the ‘personality’ doesn’t exist any more. It’s the theme of half the novels written, the theme of the sociologists and all the other -ologists. We’re told so often that human personality has disintegrated into nothing under pressure of all our knowledge... Doris Lessing
Tom Robbins quote: "There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South..."
There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender. Tom Robbins
In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life may be death and death life again reaps. He had to leap, and by his death, the others would live. That was it. That was what Sandwich had been trying to say all along, and by now he believed in Sandwich. He put on a final burst of speed, just like the coach taught him in track. He gave everything he had. In the last few steps before the canyon he felt a sharp pain in... Suzanne Collins
Stephenie Meyer quote: "His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as..."
His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I’d been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased. Stephenie Meyer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her..."
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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