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Downing Quotes (page 256)

When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself. Graham Greene
Terry Prachett quote: "And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it...."
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. Terry Prachett
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily. Diana Wynne Jones
What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. Truman Capote
whisper of yellow globesgleaming on lamp posts that swaylike bootleg licker drinkers in the fogand let your breath be moist against melike bright beads on yellow globestelephone the power-housethat the main wires are insulate(her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards)then with your tongue remove the tapeand press your lips to minetill they are incandescent Jean Toomer
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard. Virginia Woolf
We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco."Promise me till your dying day, you'll believe that a Mellon was a Confederate general. It's the truth. That God-damn book lies! There was a Confederate general in my family!"I promise," I said and it was a promise that was kept. Richard Brautigan
Charles Bukowski quote: "I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future."
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. Charles Bukowski
Neal Stephenson quote: "When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens."
When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. Neal Stephenson
I want to turn the whole thing upside down. I'll find the things they say just can't be found. I'll share the love I find with everyone. We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song. I don't want this feeling to go away. Jack Johnson
Ani DiFranco quote: "When I look down, I miss all the good stuff. And when I look..."
When I look down, I miss all the good stuff. And when I look up, I just trip over things... Ani DiFranco
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference. Lois McMaster Bujold
Forty feet long sixty feet high hotel. Covered with old gray for buzzing flies. Eye like mango flowing orange pus. Ears Durga people vomiting in their sleep. Got huge legs a dozen buses move inside Calcutta. Swallowing mouthfuls of dead rats. Mangy dogs bark out of a thousand breasts. Garbage pouring from its ass behind alleys. Always pissing yellow Hooghly water. Bellybutton melted Chinatown brown puddles. Coughing lungs Sound going down the sewer. Nose smell a big gray Bidi. Heart bumping... Allen Ginsberg
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. C. S. Lewis
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned."
Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned. Cormac McCarthy

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