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Lewis Carroll quote: "it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different..."
it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll
But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of breathless anticipation, agitated and alert, counting the hours until you can see her and hold her again. Intense. That is the word you use to describe yourself now. You are intense. Your feelings are intense. Your life has become increasingly intense. Paul Auster
the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table, drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years, to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who’s trying not to laugh at somebody who’s trying not to cry E. E. Cummings
I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration — it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.” He went on: “I can’t face any more days when I write five pages and throw them away. I can’t do that anymore. --New York Times, 18 Nov. 2012 Philip Roth
What a grand revenge you have taken! I saw you innocent, and I deceived you. Four years after, you find me a Christian enthusiast; you then work upon me, perhaps to my complete perdition! But Tess, my coz, as I used to call you, this is only my way of talking, and you must not look so horribly concerned. Of course you have done nothing except retain your pretty face and shapely figure. I saw it on the rick before you saw me—that tight pinafore-thing sets it off, and that wing-bonnet—you... Thomas Hardy
I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it. Rex Stout
When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out."Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... Eddie, you fill me up. Stephen King
Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so. Margaret Drabble
No posterity, you will never know how much it has cost us to preserve your freedom. My hope is that you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I have took half the pains to preserve it? - John Adams John Adams
Mitch Albom quote: "So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over,..."
So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring! Mitch Albom
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Dickens quote: "When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use..."
When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank. Charles Dickens
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and..."
Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon? and, perhaps, one other . . . Friedrich Nietzsche
Rudyard Kipling quote: "I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course,..."
I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
Pat Conroy quote: "The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we..."
The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them. Pat Conroy

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