"At this moment, the story in his head……" — Sara Gruen
"At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing."
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77 Quotes by Sara Gruen
Sara Gruen has 77 quotes on this site.
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am…
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I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It…
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Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being…
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I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical…
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So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing…
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
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... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or…
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I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
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I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three…
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I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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More Degenerate Quotes
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one of 109 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the…
— Henry Rollins
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I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents.…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
— Seneca the Younger
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is…
— Adolf Hitler
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The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be…
— Isaac Newton
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they…
— Vaclav Havel
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble…
— John C. Maxwell
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government…
— John Quincy Adams
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A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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