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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen... F. Scott Fitzgerald
The young man, who intends no ill,Believes that none is intended, and thereforeActs with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it. Samuel Johnson
Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work....."But, that's not writing . That's typing. Truman Capote
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page. Eudora Welty
Oscar Wilde quote: "I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or..."
I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand. Oscar Wilde
Truman Capote quote: "The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow..."
The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. Truman Capote
And the first rude sketch that the world has seenwas joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art? Rudyard Kipling
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Bella Abzug
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. Ezra Pound
. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. Dorothy L. Sayers
Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage. Janet Evanovich
William Shakespeare quote: "Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo..."
Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet) William Shakespeare
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. Rabindranath Tagore
William Shakespeare quote: "Let him smell his way to Dover!"
Let him smell his way to Dover! William Shakespeare
Paulo Coelho quote: "a man is alsoa woman; he wants to find someone, to give..."
a man is alsoa woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life. Paulo Coelho

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