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Edmund Hillary quote: "As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of..."
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. Edmund Hillary
The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven. Jose Saramago
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or..."
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. William Makepeace Thackeray
John Steinbeck quote: "I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough..."
I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times. John Steinbeck
So many people say, ‘So, what, are you a party girl?’ And I say, ‘I’m a walking good time.’ Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn’t also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect. Kesha
Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing. William Shakespeare
Unfortunately, I can't seal the sponsor deals for you. Only Haymitch can do that," says Effie grimly. "But don't worry, I'll get him to the table at gunpoint if necessary."Although lacking in many departments, Effie Trinket has a certain determination I have to admire. Suzanne Collins
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books. Stephen King
Terry Prachett quote: "Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth..."
Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to. Terry Prachett
Boris Pasternak quote: "Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging..."
Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam. Boris Pasternak
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. Malcolm Gladwell
She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with the smell of the dust, with the dry and tiny breath of the insects. I was alone in the house, sitting in the corner, waiting. And I had learned to make out the sound of rotting wood, the flutter of the air becoming old in the closed bedrooms. That was when she came. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, “Yes.” “Thank you,” he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my... Stephenie Meyer
Now obviously, in peacetime a one-legged catcher, like a one-armed outfielder (such as the Mundys had roaming right), would have been at the most a curiosity somewhere down in the dingiest town in the minors - precisely where Hot had played during the many years that the nations of the world lived in harmony. But it is one of life's grisly ironies that what is catastrophe for most of mankind, invariably works to the advantage of a few who live on the fringes of the human community. On the... Philip Roth
I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish... Jane Goodall

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