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Stephen King quote: "Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion..."
Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down... Stephen King
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James Baldwin
Muhammad Ali quote: "Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It..."
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. Muhammad Ali
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world. H. P. Lovecraft
Joan Baez quote: "The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization..."
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. Oscar Wilde
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to..."
Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight. Laurell K. Hamilton
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be... Chuck Klosterman
It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste. Marguerite Duras
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono
Oscar Wilde quote: "America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been..."
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. Oscar Wilde
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us Andre Gide
I hate you? I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour. James Patterson
He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart. Elizabeth Goudge
Grace Hopper quote: "It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission."
It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission. Grace Hopper

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