...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
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Thucydides
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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Douglas Adams
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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Matt Groening
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
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Ilona Andrews
More Quotes By Nathanael West
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground was not the kind in which life generates. Last year, he remembered, May had failed to quicken these soiled fields. It had taken...
