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I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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In fact, [Bernard Leach] was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix [MacKenzie] and I… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
“The closer he got to the realization of his dream, the more difficult things became. It seems as what the old man… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The diamond doors flew open. I blinked in disbelief at the transformation within. The tent was no longer of silk but flesh… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“And just what sort of gentlemen do you imagine now will be paying me court? ... I see ... In other words,… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Megan resumes darting her eyes back and forth between me and my sperm donor. “So,” she says after several seconds pass in… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
“I will always remember my first wave this morning. The smells of paraffin wax and brine and peppy scrub. The way the… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We’re not the Furies,” I said. “We just want to talk.” “Go away!” he shrieked. “Flowers won’t make it better. It’s too… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
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“Most of the shows I do are held at the local playhouses,” Wade explains as he reaches up to take an old… — Karyn Bosnak Copy Share Image
Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“You are surprised that the world is losing its grip, that the world is grown old? Think of a man: he is… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You call me castoff,” Mahlia said, “Chinese throwaway, whatever.” Amaya was trying to look away, but Mahlia had her pinned, kept her… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
“As in past years, the self-absorbed Jesse Root Grant and equally self-absorbed Colonel Dent continued to find each other insufferable and Grant… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image