Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
#quotes #alice-eve #childhood #clothing

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are. ~Candace Bushnell
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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