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Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you — John Irving
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. — Michael Chabon
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because… — Nicole Krauss
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our… — Maggie O'Farrell
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up… — C.S. Lewis
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? — Elizabeth von Arnim
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to… — Chogyam Trungpa
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to… — Markus Zusak
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image… — Graham Greene
There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing,… — George Saunders
Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might… — William Butler Yeats
I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too… — Jon McGregor
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I… — Katherine Anne Porter
We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.… — Margaret Atwood
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked… — Richard Ford
Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever… — Joan Didion
People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before… — George Carlin
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you. — Salvador Dali
Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a… — Andy Andrews

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