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George Harrison quote: "My son looks more like George Harrison than I do."
My son looks more like George Harrison than I do. George Harrison
They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed. 'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried. Terry Prachett
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. Raymond Chandler
Jane Austen quote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much..."
I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like Jane Austen
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? Zhuangzi
I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time. Haruki Murakami
William Shakespeare quote: "How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest..."
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears. William Shakespeare
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods..."
Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them. Cormac McCarthy
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children... Barbara Kingsolver
Tom Waits quote: "bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of..."
bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time. Tom Waits
People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts. Anne Tyler
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks. Russell Brand
James Patterson quote: "Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine...."
Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2. James Patterson
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to relate. I need an image in order to carry on an intimate conversation with what is so vast, amorphous, mysterious, and holy that it becomes ungraspable. I mean, really, how to you... Sue Monk Kidd
unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket, unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you isburning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was. Charles Bukowski

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