Canned Quotes (page 505)

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• sweet memories
• old memories
• loving memory

Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs maybe graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther down, sweetly sad memory. Three inches more, thoughts of old and satisfactory loves. An inch, thoughts of bitter loves. Bottom of the first jug, general and undirected sadness. Shoulder of the second jug, black, unholy despondency. Two fingers down, a song of death or longing. A thumb,... John Steinbeck

• blue
• cold
• smile her

During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face. Anna Akhmatova

• love
• soul
• being love

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. George MacDonald

• joy
• forever
• joys

Do it for joy and you can do it forever Stephen King

• culture
• brilliant
• him

She dreamed of him, his face, filling the dream. "Things are ending," he told her. "This civilization; things are closing in on it. It has been quite a culture, brilliant and foul, cannibal and Christian, the glory of the world. We should celebrate it while we can; until night falls."She didn't agree, not even in the dream, but she knew, as she dreamed, that there was no point telling him now. Salman Rushdie

• light
• black
• cheer

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. Kurt Vonnegut

• expectation
• expecting
• expects

How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• alone
• acute
• minutes

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. Johann Kaspar Lavater

• nature
• humanity
• painting

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. Charles Spurgeon

• reading
• good
• women

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. Bram Stoker

• soul
• fate
• enough

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors. John Dryden

• feeling
• pain
• to live

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. Erica Jong

• dance
• dark
• reading

or that writing a poem you can read to no oneis like dancing in the dark. Ovid

• past
• mistake
• time

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. Louis L'Amour

• him
• pets
• asleep

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep... Harper Lee