Ever Quotes (page 66)

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• god
• bad
• woman

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. George Carlin

• expectation
• thoughts
• writing

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought. Don DeLillo

• best
• work
• him

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. Arthur Miller

• words
• cold
• saying

My Muse sits forlorn. She wishes she had not been born. She sits in the cold. No word she says is ever told. Stevie Smith

• she
• smile her
• job

You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?"She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes."But you haven't lost your faith?"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. Is it because you think you might get better?"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left. Nicholas Sparks

• chance
• may
• understanding

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. Richard Dawkins

• fighting
• go
• battling

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you. Leo Buscaglia

• sweet dreams
• health
• beautiful

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. John Keats

• time
• forgiveness
• him

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice. James Patterson

• perfect
• die
• perfecting

How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies. George Carlin

• moments
• power
• book

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child. John Holt

• perfect
• manly
• perfect man

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. Red Smith

• little
• nature
• old

Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have all suddenly ended." She explained how Arabella had been summoned back, and would be enabled to retrieve her position. "I was referring to our old question. What Arabella has been saying to me has made me feel more than ever how hopelessly vulgar an institution legal marriage is—a sort of trap to catch a man—I can't bear to think of it. I wish I hadn't promised to let you... Thomas Hardy

• happy
• imagination
• happy him

HIs great talent in life was to be a Good Bloke. He could walk into a room and sit down and everybody would be happy to have him, even if all he ever did was smile, for they imagined behind the mustache, behind the smile it hid, something sterner, more critical and yet, also, tolerant, so that when he smiled they felt themselves approved of and they vied with each other to like him best. Peter Carey

• more
• knowing
• fascination

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know. Augusten Burroughs