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You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy. Anne Rivers Siddons
Marilyn French quote: "But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so..."
But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink? Marilyn French
Ira Gershwin quote: "I'd like to add her initial to my monogram..."
I'd like to add her initial to my monogram... Ira Gershwin
Fanny Burney quote: "Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement,..."
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. Fanny Burney
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down. Terry Prachett
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. David Foster Wallace
I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. Lady Gaga
Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest. William Golding
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey) Simon Cowell
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. Brian Greene
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters... P. G. Wodehouse
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try. Walter Mosley
Jonathan Franzen quote: "It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people..."
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. Jonathan Franzen
I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'"I thought of Hercule Poirot's words."I'm content," I said, "to be human...."We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong. Agatha Christie
And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. Suzanne Collins

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