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I make everybody feel that he doesn't really want to do any good work but that he just wants to get work done that will be thought good by everyone he knows... J. D. Salinger
May I ask you what these questions tend?''Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.''And what is your success?'She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly. Jane Austen
I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve 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, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s,... Truman Capote
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed. Peter Scott
John Muir quote: "We were glad, however, to get within reach of informatio?"
We were glad, however, to get within reach of informatio? John Muir
For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind. Barbara Kingsolver
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields! Tennessee Williams
Shelagh Delaney quote: "This isn't such a bad place to be though. I imagine you could..."
This isn't such a bad place to be though. I imagine you could get very fond of it from a distance. Shelagh Delaney
People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros. Dean Koontz
Charlaine Harris quote: "I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was..."
I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there Charlaine Harris
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone. George Eliot
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. Thomas Merton
Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl. J. K. Rowling
Albert Camus quote: "I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or..."
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know. Albert Camus
We had a notion to get out and join the sixty soldiers, but upon reflecting that there were four hundred of the Indians, we concluded to go on and join the Indians. Mark Twain

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