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He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself. Nicholas Sparks
Charles Bukowski quote: "It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in..."
It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a. m. Charles Bukowski
George Oppen is a tough old bird. If you've never seen what [he] sees, it's because you haven't sat still long enough and looked as he has. The things he sees feel like the gnarled bark of a tree. The tree is there too. You can put your weight against it. It won't give. Carl Rakosi
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. Terry Prachett
Augusten Burroughs quote: "your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone."
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. Augusten Burroughs
E. M. Forster quote: "By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a..."
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E. M. Forster
When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept repeating to himself, again and again. 'It's like a dream, I've sometimes dreamed of being in such degrading positions.' It was a misery to him to take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so were his underclothes, and now everyone could see it. And what was worse, he disliked his feet. All his life he had thought both his big toes hideous. He... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Henry Miller quote: "Cluster together like stars!"
Cluster together like stars! Henry Miller
Abraham Lincoln quote: "Everybody likes compliment."
Everybody likes compliment. Abraham Lincoln
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic. Barack Obama
John McCain quote: "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***!"
At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***! John McCain
Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect. Terry Prachett
E. M. Forster quote: "You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same."
You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same. E. M. Forster
What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time. Yet if he pursues and catches the one, he is almost always bound to catch the other also, like two creatures with one head. Plato
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator! Cornelia Funke

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