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My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to… — John Updike
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. — Albert Schweitzer
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. — Jeanette Winterson
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. — Gloria Steinem
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English… — Melissa Bank
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a… — Meg Greenfield
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables,… — Russell Baker
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the… — Jack Kerouac
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative,… — Jim Bailey
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of… — Aldous Huxley
One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a… — Kurt Vonnegut
I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars… — E L Doctorow
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things… — Joseph Wood Krutch
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they… — Plato
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia… — John Cheever
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. — Corrie Ten Boom
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see… — Herman Wouk
On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me. — Henry Bessemer
I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. — Alicia Silverstone
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. — Joan Didion

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