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Jonathan Lethem quote: "Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from..."
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. Jonathan Lethem
That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep. Raymond Chandler
Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. J. K. Rowling
Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire."What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese. George R. R. Martin
Billie Joe Armstrong quote: "The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're..."
The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring. Billie Joe Armstrong
Khalil Gibran quote: "It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I..."
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Khalil Gibran
I want lots and lots of sex."You really are the woman of my dreams."First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break. Then a second round of make-the-mattress-sing sex."I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eyes. Don't think less of me. Nora Roberts
Ray Bradbury quote: "All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime..."
All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there. Ray Bradbury
Haruki Murakami quote: "His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his..."
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body. Haruki Murakami
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles... Martin Amis
Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a... Janet Evanovich
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off"
whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off Elizabeth Gilbert
Suzanne Collins quote: "Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off...."
Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252) Suzanne Collins
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i. e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people. David Foster Wallace
It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat. J. M. Coetzee

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