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Jeanette Winterson quote: "It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you..."
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Jeanette Winterson
Marilyn Monroe quote: "You never know what life is like, until you have lived it."
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it. Marilyn Monroe
You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. Aristophanes
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. Louisa May Alcott
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others... Robert Louis Stevenson
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. Michael Chabon
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin. Thomas Hardy
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. Richard P. Feynman
You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry."No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends. J. K. Rowling
Stephenie Meyer quote: "It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came..."
It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share Stephenie Meyer
You want to be a hero,” he repeated. “You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock. Dan Simmons
It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points. Sue Grafton
It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat. J. M. Coetzee
You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution, which postulates that the history of life has been just the opposite. People like you credit both theories. It’s de rigueur. Is that reason rational? I say, f*ck off. Mark Helprin
It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke. Mark Haddon

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