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What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. Jack Kerouac
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams. That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. John Milton
Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you? as if you haven't been told a million times already? that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching. Harlan Ellison
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play,..."
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. Madeleine L'Engle
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any. Charles Bukowski
Sylvia Plath quote: "I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. Sylvia Plath
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance. George Orwell
If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands. Corrie Ten Boom
But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman. C. S. Lewis
My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed and the manufacturer of a phantom, according to our definition of an imitator, and if you need to be able to distinguish between the pursuits which make men better or worse, in private and in public, tell us what city owes a better constitution to you, as Lacedaemon owes hers to Lycurgus, and as many cities, great and small, owe theirs to many other legislators? What... Plato
Mark Twain quote: "No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's..."
No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting. Mark Twain
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe. Roland Barthes
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. Haruki Murakami
E. M. Forster quote: "If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe..."
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. E. M. Forster
V. S. Naipaul quote: "The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we..."
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. V. S. Naipaul

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