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Downing Quotes (page 224)

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk. Jack Kerouac
Lewis Carroll quote: "In another moment down went Alice after it, never once..."
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. Lewis Carroll
Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned. Neal Stephenson
Mary Pickford quote: "Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again"
Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again Mary Pickford
The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house. Saddam Hussein
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag. Jeanette Winterson
Stephen King quote: "We all float down here!"
We all float down here! Stephen King
...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. Mitch Albom
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it. Walt Whitman
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. Chuck Palahniuk
A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months. Ezra Taft Benson
Stephen King quote: "Rivers of wrinkles flowing down from the corners of this eyes..."
Rivers of wrinkles flowing down from the corners of this eyes and mouth. Stephen King
Neil Gaiman quote: "The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can..."
The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. Neil Gaiman
And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion. Charles Dickens
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. Iain Banks

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