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Italo Calvino quote: "How well I would write if I were not here!"
How well I would write if I were not here! Italo Calvino
imagine thatit were given back to me to bethe child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships, the girl who knewtruck routes from ottawa to mexico, the me who found a door in latin verseand made a map out of hexameters. Marilyn Hacker
Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different. Cormac McCarthy
Jodi Picoult quote: "If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else..."
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? Jodi Picoult
Rita Dove quote: "If fucking were graceful, desire an alibi."
If fucking were graceful, desire an alibi. Rita Dove
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women. Gustave Flaubert
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figureout how to see people differentlythan the way we were brought up to. Alice Walker
All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was hard to bear the weight of partial revelations which refused to venture past the tip of his tongue. Mark Helprin
Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice. Cornelia Funke
we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson had banned them from psychology, together with other contents of the mind, such as ideas, beliefs, desires, and feelings. They were subjective and unmeasurable, he said, and unfit for science, which studies only objective and measurable things. To a behaviorist, the only legitimate topic for psychology is overt behavior and how it is controlled by the present and... Steven Pinker
Henry B. Adams quote: "[General Grant] seriously remarked to a particularly bright..."
[General Grant] seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained. Henry B. Adams
Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic. Charles Dickens
Jim Rogers quote: "Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess..."
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since. Jim Rogers
For whatsoe'er their sufferings were before, That change they covet makes them suffer more. All other errors but disturb a state; But innovation is the blow of fate. John Dryden

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