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How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise? Jodi Picoult
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "How is your father? she asks disinterestedly."
How is your father? she asks disinterestedly. Bret Easton Ellis
How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them? J. M. Coetzee
Michael Herr quote: "How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine..."
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? Michael Herr
George Grosz quote: "How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity,..."
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing George Grosz
Georgette Heyer quote: "How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to..."
How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris Georgette Heyer
How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied. Daphne du Maurier
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the... Paulo Coelho
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing. Iris Murdoch
Steve Martin quote: "How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a..."
How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her? Steve Martin
Ernest Hemingway quote: "How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway
Dodie Smith quote: "How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!"
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! Dodie Smith
How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps. Gustave Flaubert
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touch. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story... Stephen King
How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called "this grace wholly gratuitous"? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64) Michael Pollan

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