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We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with... Susan Sontag
Billy Joel quote: "There ain't no island left for islanders like me."
There ain't no island left for islanders like me. Billy Joel
And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line. Seamus Heaney
I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself. William Shakespeare
My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books I'd read, all the mysteries. Spencer wouldn't have ended up this way. Neither would Kinsey Milhone. Or Henry O. Or Stephanie Plum, Well, yeah, maybe Stephanie Plum. Charlaine Harris
..he said, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't move forward. He thought, they should move on. He started crying. Not for himdelf, for her. He'd rescued her from her lousy life, and now he was throwing her back. He felt like a shit for doing it, for things having to be that way, for not being able to give her what she wanted. The last thing he wanted was to hurt her. The only part that wasn't in the manual, was her response: She started to laugh. "Oh, give me a break," she said. Candace Bushnell
Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we bever mindedn if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she use to saym you have to visit them from time to time. George R. R. Martin
Bruce Sterling quote: "Look, Brixie, I may dress like a nerd, but I can read trends...."
Look, Brixie, I may dress like a nerd, but I can read trends. Yeah, I can tell you what to do? Bruce Sterling
David Foster Wallace quote: "If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called..."
If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it. David Foster Wallace
In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect your family. -Lucas Jodi Picoult
I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the service. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings. Jeanette Winterson
When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like bird? wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her. F. Scott Fitzgerald
When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place. Visitors and even natives rarely use the words urban character or environmental style, but that is what they are reacting to with awe in the presence of massed, concentrated, steel, stone, power and life. Ada Louise Huxtable
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work. David Foster Wallace
It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men and he did not like it much. He was glad he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies and threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would no rather have stayed there in peace - J. R. R. Tolkien

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