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I would add to my mother's wisdom that the key to love is in the breath. You know you love a man when you can stand his breath in the morning after a night of drinking and cigarettes. When you can kiss him after he finishes a garlic and butter sandwich and still enjoy the feel of his lips. When he looks into your eyes, tells you he loves you—and the pickled herring and onions are stronger than his voice—yet you still smile. You still want to be close to him. Yes, then you have found love. My Baba used to say that the breath is a taste of the spirit. When two spirits recognize each other in memory and future, then love grows.
Valya Dudycz Lupescu
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They sat and combed their beautiful hair,
Their long, bright tresses, one by one,
As they laughed and talked in the chamber there,
After the revel was done.
Nora Perry
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Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.
Peter Carey
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
E. M. Forster
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Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.
Whitney Gaskell
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The point is I don't love your wife. I love your daughter, sir.
Charles Webb (author)
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The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.
Chris Bachelder
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Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.
Megan Crane
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William Gibson
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It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.
Jenny Diski
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The whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.
Storm Jameson
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Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
Henry Williamson
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Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.
Margaret Craven (writer)
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If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.
Tim O'Brien
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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Mavis Gallant
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Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.
Marlon James (novelist)
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Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
Alan Dean Foster
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Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.
Lorrie Moore
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If you want to know how old a woman is... ask her sister-in-law.
E. W. Howe
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Art is the most terrifying of human inventions — it preserves the right to undermine all categories.
Richard Powers
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Love is so powerful, it's like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.
Bessie Head
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Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.
Camilla Läckberg
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Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.
Flannery O'Connor
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We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
Daniel Handler
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