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Alfred Jarry quote: "Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world."
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world. Alfred Jarry
I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them. Sylvia Plath
[F]or us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laugther; and with the garbage of liveliness stuffed down us untill our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying, in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart. Truman Capote
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. Marcus Aurelius
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell. Northrop Frye
Larry McMurtry quote: "If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that..."
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped. Larry McMurtry
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. Bertrand Russell
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film. Mark Haddon
Ihave a face like a washrag. I singlove songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can'tstand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the whiterefrigerator and want to scream likethe last weeping of life forever but. I am bigger than the mountains. Charles Bukowski
Oh God," Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. "It's hard to remember something that long ago. It's almost like an epic poem I memorized once, and can barely recite anymore. Kim Stanley Robinson
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire? you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away Denis Waitley
Billie Holiday quote: "Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off."
Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off. Billie Holiday
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high. Dan Savage
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and spoke American. A lot of Americans are gay people, aren’t they? I know they didn’t invent gayness, because they say that was the Greeks. But they helped bring it back into fashion. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: it disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century. Anyway, I didn’t know anything about gays, so I just... Nick Hornby
Henry Miller quote: "I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans."
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans. Henry Miller

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