Lasting Quotes (page 36)

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• cocktail
• effects
• same thing

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing. David Herbert Lawrence

• trust
• titanic
• life

I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max James Patterson

• end
• choose
• love

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last. Candace Bushnell

• night
• nation
• nationality

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt? Stephenie Meyer

• good
• writing
• clouds

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose. Eudora Welty

• relationship
• friend
• friends

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else. Helen Fielding

• independent
• life
• road

Life is only beginning for you now . . . since at last you're quite free and independent. And you never know what may be around the next bend in the road L. M. Montgomery

• enemy
• had
• utopia

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. Arthur C. Clarke

• picture
• good
• you me

His words swirled around my head, and I heard the doctor at the hospital in Phoenix, last spring, as he showed me the X-rays. You can see it's a clean break, his finger traced along the picture of my severed bone. That's good. It will heal more easily, more quickly. Stephenie Meyer

• new
• thoughts
• book

What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's mind just as it left the writer's -- without any of the additions and modifications inevitably produced by contact with a new body of thought -- it has been read to no purpose. Edith Wharton

• book
• crossings
• crossing

I like most of his books. They are so exciting. Cross was my last book. James Patterson

• becomes
• lasts
• lastly

we become accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we are disguised to ourselves Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• soul
• evil
• end

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. Robert Louis Stevenson

• breakfast
• free
• road

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which... Arthur Machen

• i love you
• may
• love

That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver’s head. ‘Hey, bus driver,’ I said. ‘Can I smoke?’ ‘May I,’ said the bus driver. ‘I love you,’ I said. Michael Chabon