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I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave. Philip K. Dick
J. M. Barrie quote: "Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you..."
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars. J. M. Barrie
My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Candace Bushnell quote: "sometimes the best thing to do is topretend it didn't happen"
sometimes the best thing to do is topretend it didn't happen Candace Bushnell
To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no... Paulo Coelho
Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone. Orson Scott Card
Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy. Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family. And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children;... Paulo Coelho
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the..."
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready... Orson Scott Card
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil,..."
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. Harriet Beecher Stowe
there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, "you shouldn't have done that." and the soldier said, "FUCK THAT GUY!" which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did. Charles Bukowski
Though frankly… Tarnapol, as he is called, is beginning to seem as imaginary as my Zuckermans anyway, or at least as detached from the memoir-ist – his revelations coming to seem like still another “useful fiction,” and not because I am telling lies. I am trying to keep to the facts. Maybe all I’m saying is that words, being words, only approximate the real thing, and so no matter how close I come, I only come close. Philip Roth
Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt. For any living thing, hath faculties. Which he has never used; that thought with him. Is in its infancy... William Wordsworth
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of Samuel Beckett

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