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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits. C. S. Lewis
He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line. Virginia Woolf
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house. Martha Graham
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or..."
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nicholas Sparks quote: "and all I could think was that I would like to spend every..."
...and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her Nicholas Sparks
Jack Kerouac quote: "Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me."
Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. Jack Kerouac
Billy Connolly quote: "When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of..."
When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it? Billy Connolly
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? Graham Greene
Mark Twain quote: "What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. Mark Twain
The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years. George Orwell
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and... Victor Hugo
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable. Friedrich Nietzsche
She said several times that Malcollm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. (I thought devils and fiends might flourish there, actually.) Dick Francis
Each thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had suffered this on other occasions, but only on that morning did I recognize it as a crisis of inspiration, that word, abominable but so real, that demolishes everything in its path in order to reach its ashes in time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she wanted me to save her or to drown with her. Raymond Radiguet

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