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Scott Hamilton quote: "Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one..."
Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it. Scott Hamilton
... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that that exclamation had been made a thousand times before in all Russian novels of high life. It was that alone that stopped me. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Philip Larkin quote: "Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she..."
Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long. Philip Larkin
The thunder traveled over the ship, from west to east, with prolonged reverberations, before it moved away with its clouds, leaving the sea, by mid-afternoon, bathed in a strange auroral light, which turned its as smooth and iridescent as a mountain lake. The bow of the Arrow became a plough, breaking up the tranquility of the surface with the frothy arabesques of its wake. Pg 301 Explosion in the Cathedral Alejo Carpentier
William Butler Yeats quote: "It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one..."
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is William Butler Yeats
Lewis Carroll quote: ""You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were..."
"You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness".? Mad Hatter Lewis Carroll
The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness,... Brigham Young
It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed he thought again of the cellars of the Ministry of Love. It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future time, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, willful act, one chose to shorten the interval... George Orwell
Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper? Emily Bronte
A sense of great masses moving at visionary speeds, of giants dancing, of eternal sorrows consoled, of he knew not what and yet he had always known, awoke in him with the very first bass of the deep-mouthed dirge, and bowed down his spirit as if the gate of heaven had opened before him. C. S. Lewis
To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think. George Byron
My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun. Khalil Gibran
Michael Crichton quote: "The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to..."
The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed. Michael Crichton
Virginia C. Andrews quote: "Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I..."
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. Virginia C. Andrews
They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is. Meg Cabot

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