Just Quotes (page 273)

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• little
• summertime
• eyes

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction. Jodi Picoult

• life
• happy
• game

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose."I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs. Charles M. Schulz

• dream
• new
• old

Were we just two more rootless jungle-dwelling erotomaniacs creamining in their pre-faded jeans over Historical New England, dreaming the old agrarian dream in their rent-a-car convertible Philip Roth

• one day
• world
• enough

One day [Kahn] walked into a classroom and began a lecture with the words: "Light ... is." There followed a pause that seemed seven days long, just long enough to re-create the world. Tom Wolfe

• good
• lies
• caring

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Suzanne Collins

• women
• writing
• bad

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it Charles Bukowski

• personal
• saying
• bye

Why would John bother using windows or doors like a normal person? Why would he bother to say hello? Just poof. Crunch. Bye. Meg Cabot

• book
• money
• people

Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!"Nothing to do w/ "books" -- Just like the quote! Will Smith

• death
• i hate you
• believe

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life. L. M. Montgomery

• suits
• chicken
• gets

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead. Michael Palin

• good
• experience
• imagination

[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. If he gets so he can imagine truly enough people will think that the things he relates all really happened and that he is just reporting. Ernest Hemingway

• good
• serious
• funny

Manfred,” I began, exasperated, “I just don’t know what to do with you.” “I have some very good ideas,” he said. He waggled his eyebrows. He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet. Charlaine Harris

• baby
• little
• adorable

Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Tina Fey

• father
• country
• wanted

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country. Stephen Colbert

• manly
• tough
• walking

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough. Arthur Miller