People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working life untenured, but still he'd managed to be a charming magnet wherever he taught, and Amy had surfeited on faculty gossip and professorial antics and the general behavior of academics, who were as a whole no more brilliant or Machiavellian than travel agents. They tended toward shabbier clothes and manners, and of course there was the occasional storied eccentric or truly original mind, but most college campuses – especially the older ones – functioned less as brain trusts than as wildlife preserves, housing and protecting people who wouldn't last a week in GenPop. Jincy Willett
Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
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Vita Sackvillewest
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each lettter. Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become...
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Coco J. Ginger
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight,...
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Maya Angelou
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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More Quotes By Jincy Willett
...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.
