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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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Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
Ruth Ozeki
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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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A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.
Marlo Morgan
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I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults.... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
Mary Jo Putney
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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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For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
Ann M. Martin
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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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Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station'.
Lisa St Aubin de Terán
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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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A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.
Hualing Nieh Engle
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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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You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.
Kevin Brockmeier
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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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It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.
Melvin Burgess
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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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