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The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had… — Mark Helprin
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing… — Clive Barker
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. — Robert Orben
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs… — Neil Gaiman
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat. — Joseph Heller
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape… — Ken Kesey
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a… — Tom Clancy
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically… — Mark Twain
Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a… — Kim Harrison
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence… — Werner Herzog
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near… — Markus Zusak
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,… — Mark Twain
But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to… — Sarah Dessen
When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not… — Barbara Park
When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives… — Robin McKinley
It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,… — Haruki Murakami
How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is… — Stephen King
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him… — P.G. Wodehouse
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is… — Madeleine L'Engle
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can… — Nick Hornby
I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he… — John Irving
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little… — Samuel Beckett

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