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A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.â€ â€œThatâ€™s only three.â€ Alvis finished his wine. â€œYou have to do… — Jess Walter
It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them… — Maggie Stiefvater
Many women donâ€™t know what orgasm is. Many men donâ€™t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm; it… — Rajneesh
the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never… — Sara Zarr
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's… — Anais Nin
They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They… — Guillaume Musso
Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech.… — Salman Rushdie
And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already… — Hunter S. Thompson
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--"… — Lynn Austin
She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped… — Steven Levenkron
I donâ€™t want to be a Princess,â€ she said finally. â€œYou canâ€™t make me be one.â€ She knew very well what became of Princesses, as… — Catherynne M. Valente
Theyâ€™ll have to eat first. And by the time theyâ€™re finished, youâ€™ll be back.â€ â€œWith the condoms.â€ â€œRight.â€ â€œFor the giant orgy youâ€™re convinced weâ€™re… — Karen Chance
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a… — Ernest Hemingway
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these… — Joe Queenan
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished.… — Jonathan Carroll
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. — Madeleine L'Engle
A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while. — Neil Young
You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of… — Cassandra Clare
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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