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Ernest Hemingway quote: "THE GAMBLER, THE NUN,& THE RADIOI always like the bad ones. I..."
THE GAMBLER, THE NUN,& THE RADIOI always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort Ernest Hemingway
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. Barbara Pym
There are people who feel deeply but are somehow beaten down. Their buffoonery is something like a spiteful irony against those to whom they dare not speak the truth directly because of a long-standing, humiliating timidity before them. Believe me, Krasotkin, such buffoonery is sometimes extremely tragic. Fyodor Dostoevsky
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction. Sigmund Freud
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice! Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Suzanne Collins quote: "Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of..."
Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me. Suzanne Collins
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs. Jonathan Franzen
Taylor Swift quote: "I like the way I can't keep my focus. I watch you talk, you..."
I like the way I can't keep my focus. I watch you talk, you didn't notice. Taylor Swift
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished Djuna Barnes
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow. Josh Billings
Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old. Robertson Davies
She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with stupidities and mistakes, useless and ugly, and yet they never saw its worthlessness. John Cheever
Suzanne Collins quote: "She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her..."
She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, Suzanne Collins
Janx Spirit : Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking games that are played in the hyperspace ports that serve the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta. The game is not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and is played like this: Two contestants sit at either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them. Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit? as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song : Douglas Adams
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. Philip K. Dick

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