Keeps Quotes

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What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them… — Hunter S. Thompson
My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things. — Kurt Vonnegut
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. — Joseph Conrad
An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. — Nelson Algren
Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our… — Walter Dean Myers
Snoring keeps the monsters away. — Judy Blume
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of… — Haruki Murakami
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of a city was like the history of a familyâ€”there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.… — John Irving
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itâ€™s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good… — Dean Koontz
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one… — John Green
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old… — Eduardo Galeano

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