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Mel Brooks quote: "I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of..."
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. Mel Brooks
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself. Flannery O'Connor
Charlaine Harris quote: "Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated."
Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated. Charlaine Harris
James Patterson quote: "It's been said that love finds you when you're ready."
It's been said that love finds you when you're ready. James Patterson
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs. Nicholas Sparks
Jose Rizal quote: "In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable..."
In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail. Jose Rizal
Samuel Beckett quote: "To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was. Samuel Beckett
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? C. S. Lewis
She is quiet for a moment. "have you ever been swimming in the summer", she asks, "when a cloud comes in front of the sun? You know how, for a few seconds, you're absolutely freezing in th water and you think you'd better get out and dry off? But then all of a sudden the sun's back out and you're warm again and when you tell people how much fun you had swimming you wouldn't even think to mention those clouds." Cara shrugs. "That's what it's like, with my father." -Cara Jodi Picoult
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted. Marina Warner
I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind. Bob Dylan
The jackal with one eye that looks back and one that regards the path you consider taking. In his jaws are pieces of the past he delivers to you, and when all of that time is fully discovered it will prove to have been already known. Michael Ondaatje
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blas feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve. Theophile Gautier
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all. She wished with all her heart Combe Magna was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated him so much that she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was. Jane Austen

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