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Harvey Pekar quote: "I don't understand how an adult can write those last two..."
I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable. Harvey Pekar
That night, how could I sleep? I lay and watched the lonely gloom; And watched the moonlight creep From wall to basin, round the room. All night I could not sleep. Rupert Brooke
C. S. Lewis quote: "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be..."
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. C. S. Lewis
Philip K. Dick quote: "That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with..."
That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem. Philip K. Dick
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life. Salman Rushdie
JANE: "Will you tell me how long you have loved him?" ELIZABETH: "I believe it must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley. Jane Austen
Frederick Douglass quote: "Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free."
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how..."
Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell."- Bella Swan. Stephenie Meyer
The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of things. It can have no cause to favor certain enterprises over others. The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. There is no favoring, you see. How could there be? At whose behest? This man did not cease to believe in God. Nor did he come to have some modern view of God. There was God and there was the world. He knew that the world would forget... Cormac McCarthy
Franklin P. Adams quote: "Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse,..."
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how. Franklin P. Adams
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Albert Camus
Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and her ex-husband and everything they'd been through were behind her. Nothing is ever behind us. Roberto Bolano
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. H. G. Wells
They have none of them much to recommend them", replied he: "they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters." "Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves." "You mistake me my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. Jane Austen
Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. Arthur Conan Doyle

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