Favourite Quotes

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the… — Norman Mailer
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. — Alan Moore
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But,… — Alan Moore
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
If the phone doesn't ring, it's me. — Jimmy Buffett
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so… — Orhan Pamuk
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. — Margaret Mitchell
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. — Wallace D. Wattles
Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is… — Elizabeth Scott
She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped… — P.G. Wodehouse
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead… — Douglas Adams
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch… — Douglas Adams
this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind… — Claudia Gray
I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long timeâ€¦but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK,… — Grant Morrison
â€ŽHe often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch
Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside… — Lauren DeStefano
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.… — Kurt Vonnegut

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