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Up Quotes by Ann Patchett
- Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you…
- Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in…
- You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws…
- Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the…
- There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength…
- Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up…
- Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping…
- There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness…
- It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong