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• believe
• time
• work

I hear a new tone when acquaintances ask how I am, a tone I have not before noticed and find increasing distressing, even humiliating: these acquaintances seem as they ask impatient, half concerned, half querulous, as if no longer interested in the answer. As if all too aware that the answer will be a complaint. I determine to speak, if asked how I am, only positively. I frame the cheerful response. What I believe to be the cheerful response as I frame it emerges, as I hear it, more in the... Joan Didion

• dead
• lively
• lives

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Dante Alighieri

• learning
• fitness
• people

There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards. Anthony Trollope

• literature
• giving
• year end

As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it! Lytton Strachey

• love
• question
• stay

The only question is how to make love stay. Tom Robbins

• feeling
• fruit
• street

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad. Terry Prachett

• respect
• powerful
• understanding

I ask, I demand to be respected! Shatov went on shouting. "Not for my person--to hell with it--but for something else, just for now, for a few words...We are two beings, and we have come together in infinity...for the last time in the world. Abandon your tone and take a human one! At least for once in your life speak in a human voice. Not for my sake, but for your own. Do you understand that you should forgive me that slap in the face if only because with it I gave you an opportunity to... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• thinking
• pretty
• sleep

Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference...I got set next to this woman...she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I aint even sure what she meant by it...She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she'll... Cormac McCarthy

• bounded
• report
• occasional

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally. J. K. Rowling

• people
• she
• saying

When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor

• star
• wellness
• love

Laments of an Icarus. The paramours of courtesans. Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars. Which flame in the remotest sky. That I see only with spent eyes. Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find. The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze. I feel my very wings unpinned. And, burned because I beauty loved, I shall not know the highest bliss, And give... Charles Baudelaire

• manly
• drinking
• friends

I never turn down a drink. Among friend's it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too. Sholom Aleichem

• ignorance
• pretty
• unhappy life

Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones - to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by. Kurt Vonnegut

• change
• time
• timing

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. Irvine Welsh

• poisons
• impulses
• willed

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us. Oscar Wilde