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Downing Quotes (page 82)

I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had anything to say that people would want to read. "There's nothing to writing," the columnist Red Smith once commented. "All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Wally Lamb
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down..."
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. Friedrich Nietzsche
Jodi Picoult quote: "Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white...."
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. Jodi Picoult
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. Alain de Botton
When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into the dining-room, where coffee was already waiting for him, and beside the coffee, letters and papers from the... Leo Tolstoy
The brutes imagine they are doing me an honour in letting me sit down with them. They don't understand that it's an honour to them not to me! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dale Carnegie quote: "All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go..."
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory. Dale Carnegie
... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet. Alice Hoffman
Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates, like a soul, into the clouds. And then, like everything else, it starts all over again. Jodi Picoult
Ray Bradbury quote: "And the sea moved her back down the shore."
And the sea moved her back down the shore. Ray Bradbury
He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where he lay gasping for breath and wishing he'd been a better person. Terry Prachett
He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that man's wife's health and how his children were. He said he had a book that he kept thenames of his customers' families and what was wrong with them. A man's wife had cancer, he put her name down in the book and wrote 'cancer' after it and inquired about her every time he went to that man's hardware store until she died; then he scratched out the word 'cancer' and wrote 'dead' there. "And I say thank God when they're dead,"... Flannery O'Connor
Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin."I will. I'll marry you."Ma non posso sposarti." "And why can't you marry me?"Perche sei pazzo!"And why am I crazy?"Perche vuoi sposarmi."Because I want to marry you. Carina, ti amo," he explained, and he drew her gently back down to the pillow. "Te amo molto."Tu sei pazzo," she murmured in reply, flattered. "Perche?"Because you say you love me. How can you love a girl who is not a virgin?"Because I can't marry you."She bolted right... Joseph Heller
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Madeleine L'Engle
When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull. Henry Miller

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