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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… — May Sarton
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our… — C.S. Lewis
Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness! — Jodi Picoult
There is a classic moment in â€˜The Sun Also Risesâ€™ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is… — Swami Vivekananda
She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the… — Gail Carson Levine
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not… — Joss Whedon
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in… — Chuck Palahniuk
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a… — Mary Ann Shaffer
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas. — A. Lee Martinez
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard
I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do… — Suzanne Collins
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot… — Harper Lee
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved… — Sarah Addison Allen
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir. — P.G. Wodehouse
Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage… — Nick Hornby
and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did… — Sherman Alexie
The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what breaks your heart? — Jonathan Carroll
You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and… — Elizabeth Scott

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