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i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former… — Leonard Cohen
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your… — Ellen Bass
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. — Khalil Gibran
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was… — Isaac Asimov
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and… — D. H. Lawrence
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's… — Natasha Trethewey
Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said,… — Paulette Jiles
But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol.… — Patricia Highsmith
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write… — William Shakespeare
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite,… — Julio Cortazar
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then… — Neil Gaiman
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over… — Erica Jong
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out… — Jeanette Winterson
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know… — Ntozake Shange
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is… — Samuel R. Delany
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of… — Gertrude Stein
A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.… — Knut Hamsun
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! A new year ... a fresh, clean… — Bill Watterson
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may… — Arthur Golden
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This… — Augusten Burroughs
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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