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For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fianc,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too. Albert Camus
From then on I had her in my memory with so much clarity that I could do what I wanted with her. I changed the color of her eyes according to my state of mind: the color of water when she woke, the color of syrup when she laughed, the color of light when she was annoyed. I dressed her according to the age and condition that suited my changes of mood: a novice in love at twenty, a parlor whore at forty, the queen of Babylon at seventy, a saint at one hundred. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only..."
Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty! Charles Baudelaire
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use. Ernest Hemingway
...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on. Elspeth Huxley
The north wind and the sun were disputing which was the stronger, and agreed to acknowledge as the victor whichever of them could strip a traveler of his clothing. The wind tried first. But its violent gusts only made the man hold his clothes tightly around him, and when it blew harder still the cold made him so uncomfortable that he put on an extra wrap. Eventually the wind got tired of it and handed him over to the sun. The sun shone first with moderate warmth, which made the man take off... Aesop
It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get any; then, after a while, the writer gets a little kick and the reader gets a little kick; and finally, if the writer's any good, he doesn't get any kick at all and the reader gets everything. Ernest Hemingway
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. Kurt Vonnegut
Personal affection is a luxury youcan hve only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your and corrupting your judgment. Orson Scott Card
Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and then my own, whom I call unfortunate. Victor Hugo
Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you. Dean Koontz
James Patterson quote: "Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror,..."
Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. James Patterson
You look wonderful", Jason said."No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie."Then by all means take it off. Laurell K. Hamilton
Barack Obama quote: "The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But..."
The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is. Barack Obama
Janet Evanovich quote: "There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to..."
There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing."Ranger Janet Evanovich

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