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William S. Burroughs quote: "Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There..."
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. William S. Burroughs
I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't... Anthony Trollope
Margaret Atwood quote: "It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top...."
It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. Margaret Atwood
Oscar Wilde quote: "I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else."
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else. Oscar Wilde
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. Bell Hooks
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. Oswald Chambers
My aim here was much more straightforward and objective? just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day. Besides, I've had enough unchosen encounters with poverty in my lifetime to know it's not a place you would want to visit for touristic purposes; it just smells too much like fear. Barbara Ehrenreich
Joss Whedon quote: "He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow,..."
He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. Joss Whedon
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal. L. M. Montgomery
It is the role of the BCYF caseworker to simply go along for the ride, so that if by some miracle it reaches the trial stage, everything has been done the way the government likes it. Jodi Picoult
Believe me, the real romantic person is him who ain't done anything but imagine. If you have actually participated in disasters, like me, you get conservative. Thomas Berger
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl. Terry Prachett
Virginia Woolf quote: "No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it..."
No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes. Virginia Woolf
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star. Toni Morrison
E. E. Cummings quote: "as small as a world and as large as alone For whatever we..."
as small as a world and as large as alone For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea E. E. Cummings

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