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- What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and…
- The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
- We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
- It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
- She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
- We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
- The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
- And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,…
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
- The window was still open.†Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew…
- I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different…
- Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
- All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that…
- Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
- All wisdom ends in paradox.
- All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
- In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the…
- To start with, look at all the books.
- It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She…
- What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray