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BUDGE (muffled)No, no, nono. NURSE BAKERI understand what you're trying to say. BUDGEA hideous scream. NURSE BAKERExactly. BUDGEA cry of desperation. NURSE BAKERPerfect. BUDGEA strangled sob. A plea torn from my throat. What sound can I make to convince you I'm not the one you want? A disconsolate sigh? Maybe that's what you want to hear. The smallest human moan imaginable. A whisper in a corner of an unlit room, with curtains blowing in the wind. NURSE BAKERWhat could be more touching? Don DeLillo
Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit. George Saunders
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn. Jean Cocteau
Archimedes quote: "Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move..."
Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth. Archimedes
Tennessee Williams quote: "How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. Tennessee Williams
I can't afford to let my judgement be clouded by any feeling that I might have for a human being. You are the only person I've ever cared for in the world, Charley. I shan't rest till I know in my bones that if it were necessary to put you against a wall and shoot you with my own hands I could do it without a moment's hesitation and without a moment's regret. W. Somerset Maugham
Peter S. Beagle quote: "no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by..."
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. Peter S. Beagle
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate. Thomas Merton
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry S. Truman
Amy Tan quote: "how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many..."
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? Amy Tan
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the..."
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? Rudyard Kipling
Seth Godin quote: "If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t..."
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position. Seth Godin
I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government. James Madison
Neil Gaiman quote: "Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can...."
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. Neil Gaiman
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile. Herman Hesse

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