"Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've……" — Melissa Bank
"Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive."
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40 Quotes by Melissa Bank
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're…
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV…
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer…
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the…
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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at…
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am,…
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my…
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never…
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid…
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The…
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days…
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You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
— Sun Tzu
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you…
— Napoleon Hill
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
— Terry Crisp
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
— Carl Sandburg
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
— Edward Topsell
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