Claims Quote by Arthur Phillips

“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.”

Arthur Phillips

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“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”

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“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man…

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“Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke.…

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“All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for…

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He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the…

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It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

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“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch…

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I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put…

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I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own…

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“He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist…

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