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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. Ernest Hemingway
She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies. J. M. Barrie
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on. Frank Lloyd Wright
Katharine Hepburn quote: "Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as..."
Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly? Katharine Hepburn
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough. Nick Hornby
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot. William Gibson
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it." My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk. David Foster Wallace
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde quote: "I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get..."
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Oscar Wilde
Terry Prachett quote: "There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get..."
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises. Terry Prachett
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into. Diane Ackerman
Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark. Dean Koontz
O smile, going where? O upturned look: new, warm, receding surge of the heart--; alas, we are that surge. Does then the cosmic space we dissolve in taste of us? Do the angels reclaim only what is theirs, their own outstreamed existence, or sometimes, by accident, does a bit of us get mixed in? Are we blended in their features like the slight vagueness that complicates the... Rainer Maria Rilke
Nicole Polizzi quote: "I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's..."
I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants! Nicole Polizzi
One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves. Meg Cabot

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