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Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar. John Waters
Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm. Kazuo Ishiguro
Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good. Victor Hugo
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed..."
I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday. Haruki Murakami
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment. Frances Hodgson Burnett
John Steinbeck quote: "Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas..."
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans John Steinbeck
Dave Eggers quote: "Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane."
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane. Dave Eggers
Patricia Cornwell quote: "I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did,..."
I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely Patricia Cornwell
Louisa May Alcott quote: "having learned that people cannot be moulded like cla?"
having learned that people cannot be moulded like cla? Louisa May Alcott
Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know? Nancy Mitford
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think..."
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T. L. M. Montgomery
And as for your hair! it's worse than ever. Can't you drench it in water to take those untidy twists and twirls out of it?' 'It only makes it curl more and more whey it gets dry,' said Molly, sudden tears coming into her eyes as a recollection came before her like a picture seen long ago and forgotten for years-a young mother washing and dressing her little girl; placing the half-naked darling on her knee, and twining the wet rings of dark hair fondly round her fingers, and then, in ecstasy... Elizabeth Gaskell
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing. Robertson Davies
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you. Anne Lamott

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