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George Orwell quote: "Good prose is like a windowpane."
Good prose is like a windowpane. George Orwell
Charles Williams quote: "Pardon, Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially..."
Pardon, Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't. Charles Williams
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on..."
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident. Hunter S. Thompson
We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled soft around our shoulders. I could feel them touching me in places, like an actual shawl. Sue Monk Kidd
I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one direction and see in another. I was struck by the strange capability we have to look through the front window of a motor car and at the same time look through the driving mirror and not to confuse the view that one saw inside one frame with the view that surrounded it in another frame. Jonathan Miller
In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965) Bob Dylan
The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people. Michael Chabon
Word inflation . . . Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation. David Foster Wallace
His breathing was heavy and he was somber. He shivered still, and when his hand found me it was unsteady."Ah," I said smiling still, and kissing his shoulder."I hurt you!" he said."No, no, not at all, sweet Master," I answered. "But I hurt you! I have you, now!"Amadeo, you play with the devil."Dont you want me to, Master? Didn't you like it? You took my blood and it made you my slave!"He laughed. "So that's the twist you put on it, isn't it?"Hmmm. Love me. What does it matter?" I asked."Never... Anne Rice
Willa Cather quote: "Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends..."
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. Willa Cather
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. George Eliot
There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness. E. M. Forster
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of..."
In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence, one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot. Czeslaw Milosz
I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth. Paulo Coelho
A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.” Here is the essence of mankind’s creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum. Dan Simmons

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