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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her. — E. M. Forster
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to… — Joanne Harris
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now… — Jack Kerouac
Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick.… — Nancy Holder
This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it,… — Sarah Dessen
Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling?… — Mark Oliver Everett
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the… — George Eliot
I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It… — David Klass
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays — Jeanette Winterson
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with… — George R. R. Martin
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly… — Malcolm Gladwell
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. — Patrick Rothfuss
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterdayâ€™s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of… — Daphne du Maurier
beautyâ€™ is related not to â€˜lovelinessâ€™ but to a state in which reality plays a part. — William Carlos Williams
I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant — Samuel Beckett
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His… — Terry Pratchett
But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the… — Jodi Picoult

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