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Alice Munro quote: "Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is..."
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. Alice Munro
Nora Roberts quote: "And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on..."
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. Nora Roberts
To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west at about 1.6 kilometres a year, a clear nonsense. (Its more like a centimetre.) Bill Bryson
Albert Pike quote: "Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason..."
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks. Albert Pike
Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys. Stephen Crane
Alain de Botton quote: "Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more..."
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. Alain de Botton
Ernest Hemingway quote: "The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried..."
The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more. Ernest Hemingway
I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario. P. G. Wodehouse
Abraham Lincoln quote: "Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other"
Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other Abraham Lincoln
Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting. J. K. Rowling
IF anybody had been there to observe the gentle-looking elderlylady who stood meditatively on the loggia outside her bungalow, they would have thought she had nothing more on her mind thandeliberation on how to arrange her time that day. An expedition, perhaps, to Castle Cliff; a visit to Jamestown; a nice drive andlunch at Pelican Point_ or just a quiet morning on the beach. But the gentle old lady was deliberating quite other matters. Shewas in a militant mood. Agatha Christie
I mean we desperately wanted to be in love with something or other. We were lonely people. It seemed more sensible to fall in love with another person who also wanted to fall in love, than to love a chair or a cat or an idea. Ben Okri
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails. Marge Piercy
C. S. Lewis quote: "The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought."
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought. C. S. Lewis
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity. Albert Camus

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