Notoriety Quote by E. Lockhart

““She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.””

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“She makes the world seem shiny and sunlit. -Noel”

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“And then he's grabbing my hand, and pulling me into a storage room they use for art supplies. And he puts his finger to his lips, and the walls are filled with pads of paper and boxes of colored pencils and jars of paint, and I'm laughing and he shuts the door behind us and leans up against it to…

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“Noel shook his head. "You think better of this scene than I do, Ruby. Don't you see how fake those girls are? Let it go. Have a laugh about it when you're older. Forget that junk." I wanted to believe him, to skip off to some punk-rock hangout and develop ironic distance and start over in a universe where it…

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“the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don’t have one.”

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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the…

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“Also, I was living in the middle of my parents' marriage. No one ever says this about families, and maybe people who aren't only children don't even notice it, but half the time I feel like I'm this extra person watching them have a marriage. They fight, they kiss, they discuss the inlaws, they do projects, they take down the…

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“At least, these guys were looking. And seeing something. A milkshake.”

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...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his…

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“Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?”

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“Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come…

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“It doesn't matter if one of us is desperately, desperately in love. So much in love, that equally desperate measures must be taken”

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“The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn’t…

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The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout…

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Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look…

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Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

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America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

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Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

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I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

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