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When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer...
– Madeleine L’Engle
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Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to...
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
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But we aren’t corpses in graves, we are not dead. Don’t you understand that when...
– Ayn Rand, in response to an interviewer stating his belief in eternity rather than just being ‘corpses in graves when we die.’
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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in...
– Ezra Pound
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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be...
– Chuck Palahniuk
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She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real...
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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When New York banned smoking in restaurants, I stopped eating out. When they...
– David Sedaris
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
– Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (performed by, and often attributed to, Lily Tomlin)
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...
– Jeanette Winterson
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MacArthur Foundation Awards $350,000 to Create a... →