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Ian Mcewan quote: "How do you feel?' Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you..."
How do you feel?' Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you don't look it.' I feel I'm shivering inside. Ian Mcewan
Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. Michael Pollan
He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail. John Sayles
Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens.... Meg Cabot
Graham Chapman quote: "Always look on the bright side of life."
Always look on the bright side of life. Graham Chapman
I looked into his sandy brown eyes, at one with the hair. At the business- like outward presentation of the man who daily printed sneers, innuendo, distrust and spite and spoke without showing a trace of them. 'Off the record,' I said,'bash his face in'. Dick Francis
Neal Stephenson quote: "She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and..."
She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave Neal Stephenson
Freya Stark quote: "If one were given a single window from which to look upon the..."
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. Freya Stark
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour. Chuck Palahniuk
Part of the far shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water. There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or was not there. And the people of the Gulf expected all places were that way, and it was not strange to them. John Steinbeck
I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken? Jeanette Winterson
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Alfred North Whitehead
She was surprised at how tiny the school seemed now. She supposed it was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things. Betty Smith
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway
There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us. Cormac McCarthy

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