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Theodore Roethke quote: "I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet."
I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet. Theodore Roethke
Jodi Picoult quote: "We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike. ..."
We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike. ...But none of these things mean we all think alike. Jodi Picoult
Toni Morrison quote: "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that..."
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. Toni Morrison
I’m sorry, Silvertongue, but the fact is I don’t believe anyone. You ought to know that by now. We’re all liars when it serves our purpose. Cornelia Funke
To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need. Joan D. Vinge
The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything? all the pain I felt, the betrayal? I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie. Bret Easton Ellis
She used to say to him, If people knew what I was thinking they would put me away forever. But they would put us all away, he said. They have put us away. We are put away for our thoughts, one way or another. We have put ourselves away, he said. Don DeLillo
He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma - we cannot make a mistake. Christopher Isherwood
One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end.~Dr. Barron Agatha Christie
life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish Virginia Woolf
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. Maria Callas
Michelangelo quote: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too..."
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo
Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won all. Angels' breathless ballot Lingers to record thee; Imps in eager caucus Raffle for my soul. Emily Dickinson
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none..."
It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all. Georg C. Lichtenberg
All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it. Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing? Truman Capote

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