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Going Quotes (page 273)

Elizabeth Bowen quote: "At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when..."
At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything. Elizabeth Bowen
Flannery O'Connor quote: "You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's..."
You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's all I know. Flannery O'Connor
The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day."Good."They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it? Ray Bradbury
Judy Blume quote: "What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when..."
What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning? Judy Blume
I am climbing to my freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway.. Sylvia Plath
Terry Prachett quote: "It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent..."
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you though of going into teaching? Terry Prachett
Neil Gaiman quote: "Writer advice..Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot..."
Writer advice..Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write Neil Gaiman
Jodi Picoult quote: "How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and..."
How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made? Jodi Picoult
Certainly. Of course. That’s part of it. And always coming to school or when we’re going home, you’re to walk with me, when there ain’t anybody looking – and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that’s the way you do when you’re engaged. Mark Twain
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. William Shakespeare
He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy. Jeffrey Eugenides
Philippa’s letter, from an afflicted conscience, was not very much longer. … if I don’t look for him, no one else will. You know I’m sorry. But I couldn’t leave that little thing to wither away by itself Don’t be sad. We’re all going to come back. And you can teach him Two Legs and I Wot a Tree, and save him the top of the milk for his blackberry pie. He’ll never know, if we’re quick, that nobody wanted him.… Which had, Kate considered as she scrubbed off her tears, a ring of unlikely... Dorothy Dunnett
Neal Stephenson quote: "How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going..."
How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell? Neal Stephenson
She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of her soul (“Yay, going on a trip!”) even as her higher brain was ticking off all the bad things that could happen when men like Jones came into proximity with jet aircraft. Neal Stephenson
Life goes on. It doesn't go on. Yes, yes, I know, all we want in the end, we living, breathing creatures (am I still one of them?) is life. All we want to believe in is the persistence and vitality of life. Faced with the choice between death and the merest hint of life, what scrap, what token wouldn't we cling to in order to keep that belief? A leaf? A single moist, green leaf? That will do, that will be enough. Graham Swift

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