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- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected,…
- Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
- It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for…
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
- Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had…
- Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on…
- Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour