“Their hair in curlers and their heads wrapped in loud scarves, young mothers, fattish in trousers, lounge about in the speedwash, smoking… — William H Gass Copy Share Image
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
“There was no reason to leave. So I put my brain elsewhere and when it got dark I realized that all the… — Catherine Lacey 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
“Since the earliest days of the art form, humans have been the most difficult characters to animate. The more realistic the human… — Charles Solomon Copy Share Image
“Bout a month ago. She came in Boxing Day but I put her out. She was begging people, not even tapping, but… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“And Vicky also told her sister that all girls at the Health Centre considered that men were born crazy, if not down-right… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
“Birds are and always have been reincarnated old men with Tourette's syndrome having somehow managed to dupe the reproductive saga. They fuck… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
“See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“People ate all sorts of awful things, such as creepy-crawlies, & the roots, bark & leaves of trees for their supposed aphrodisiacal… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
“...for the first time Rincewind saw the troll. It wasn’t half so bad as he had imagined. Umm, said his imagination after… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Blue, green,… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“War and ceasefire There was a war followed by a ceasefire, Swaths of land lay covered in ashes and dead men and… — Javid Ahmad Tak Copy Share Image
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing how quickly our bodies die. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“...and when she thinks of that generation of silent men, the boys who lived through the Depression and grew up to become… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“War and ceasefire There was a war followed by a ceasefire, Land covered in ash, dead men and women, Beside the dead… — Javid Ahmad Tak Copy Share Image
“This fountain commemorates Luxembourg’s two national poets—Lentz and Dicks,’” Jeffrey reads. “That had to be a tough name to get through school… — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“To be frank, I think the elegant, long sentence is a thing of beauty, a self-contained entity worthy of study all by… — Charles Johnson Copy Share Image
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Your mother gives birth to you only once and only once do you die,' the witcher said calmly. 'An appropriate philosophy for… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Ana feels like pushing her neighbour up against the wall and telling him that the locker room where those boys sit telling… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Every morning when I wake up and look in the mirror, I see a black face and I love it. Sure, I've… — Natalie Baszile Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs!” I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“If it were any of the other Sharpes, he wouldn’t balk. But the idea of spending serveral hours in her company was… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
“Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation or set of situations no… — John Barth Copy Share Image
