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I looked at him and did not answer; there flashed through my mind a quick, running picture of all the squalid hovels in which I had lived and it made me feel more than ever a stranger as I stood before him. How could I have told him that I had learned to curse before I had learned to read? How could I have told him that I had been a drunkard at the age of six? Richard Wright
Truman Capote quote: "Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say..."
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio. Truman Capote
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered. Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt. I should have known better. Than to start something that I couldn't finish. That I couldn't care about. That I couldn't remember starting in the first place. I don't want to know you. You went years without me. You might as well keep going. Henry Rollins
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. Jack London
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or dow?. There was kindliness about intoxication? there was the indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings F. Scott Fitzgerald
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe. Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. 'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. Henry David Thoreau
The truth is that wherever you go, people want ideas, want language, want discussion, want space to share and to talk. The Web is great but there is nothing better than people in a room together. I used to be a bit dubious about all these literary festivals happening all the time, but this last visit to Sydney has convinced me of how important, and necessary they are. There is a collective hunger for real things? a kind of self-administered antidote to consumerism and spin. Yes, people spend... Jeanette Winterson
O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down. Into the fatal bowels of the deep. William Shakespeare
Lazy Lob and crazy Cobare weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy. J. R. R. Tolkien
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down. Angelina Jolie
I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.'--spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath Cornelia Funke
Frederick Douglass quote: "It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones."
It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones. Frederick Douglass
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then--?' We believed your two hundred dollars.' You mean--' She seemed not to know what he meant. I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right. Dashiell Hammett

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