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Bob Dylan quote: "If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them."
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them. Bob Dylan
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. Georgia O'Keeffe
I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. Anne Lamott
O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"Life!" urged Fook."The Universe!" said Lunkwill."Everything!" they said in chorus. Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection."Tricky," he said finally."But can you do it?"Again, a significant pause."Yes," said Deep Thought, "I can do it."There is an answer?" said Fook with breathless excitement."Yes,"... Douglas Adams
The Poet at the Breakfast Table: My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Jonathan Kellerman quote: "It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I..."
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder. Jonathan Kellerman
Edward Albee quote: "I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with..."
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? Edward Albee
Wally Lamb quote: "The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and..."
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs. Wally Lamb
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish. Anne Lamott
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the... Ray Bradbury
J. D. Salinger quote: "I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go,..."
I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school. J. D. Salinger
When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body. Anais Nin
Glenn Beck quote: "Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone..."
Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else. Glenn Beck
Ann Patchett quote: "She's growing up," Sister Evangeline said. And I wanted to..."
She's growing up," Sister Evangeline said. And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same. Ann Patchett
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is... Margaret Atwood

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