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all living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted. Orson Scott Card
If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by holding it in front of your eyes, worlds of such beauty and complexity that they took your breath away...wouldn't you want to show this device to everyone you knew? Ann Patchett
Ranger appeared in the bathroom doorway and I was too relieved to be embarrassed. "I appreciate you coming out in the middle of the night," I said. Ranger smiled. "I didn't want to miss seeing you chained up naked. Janet Evanovich
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover..."
It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henri Nouwen quote: "We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and..."
We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world. Henri Nouwen
I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. Mindy Kaling
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them. Claude Levi-Strauss
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these..."
If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look. Vladimir Nabokov
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself."
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. Jeffrey Eugenides
Alice Walker quote: "We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d..."
We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand Alice Walker
You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill. Nora Roberts
But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness. Willa Cather
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag. Drifting throught the wind. Wanting to start again. Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin. Like a house of cards. One blow from caving in Katy Perry
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done. Barbara Kingsolver
Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo Nicholas Sparks

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