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Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar… — Norman Douglas
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings… — Eudora Welty
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t… — Frank McCourt
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is… — Hunter S. Thompson
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a… — Nicole Krauss
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home… — Robert Frost
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits… — Toni Morrison
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge — Dan Millman
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. — Ernest Hemingway
You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the… — Neil Gaiman
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and… — Audre Lorde
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations… — Scott Westerfeld
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters… — Michael Ende
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying… — William Hazlitt
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. — Neil Gaiman
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. — George Carlin
I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking,… — Ernest Hemingway
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even… — Immanuel Kant
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,… — P.G. Wodehouse
Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be… — John Donne
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you. — Khaled Hosseini
Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for… — Richard Bach

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