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Whatever people say, the state called 'being in love' usually does not last ... But, of course, ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God ... This is, I think, one little part of what Christ meant by saying that a thing will not really live unless it first dies. C. S. Lewis
James Patterson quote: "If you wanted me to take a shower, you should have payed me..."
If you wanted me to take a shower, you should have payed me ten bucks like you usually do! James Patterson
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it. Irvine Welsh
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes. Anne Sexton
...if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto. Tom Robbins
Stephenie Meyer quote: "The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal..."
The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along. Stephenie Meyer
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. James Patterson
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry. John Ciardi
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. Iris Murdoch
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details. Jorge Luis Borges
Most of the afternoons I would pass looking out at the pasture. I soon began seeing things. A figure emerging from the birch woods and running straight in my direction. Usually it was the Sheep Man, but sometimes it was the Rat, sometimes my girlfriend. Other times it was the sheep with the star on it's back. Haruki Murakami
That's it for me. I'm fucked. As per usual. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Although come to think of it I was never even the freaking bridesmaid. Look, show your cock. It's the shortest line between two points. The world ain't giving away nice lives. You got a trust fund? You a genius? Show your cock. It's what you got. George Saunders
Wendell Berry quote: "You can best serve civilization by being against what usually..."
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. Wendell Berry
Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster Haruki Murakami
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. Orson Scott Card

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