Denna is a wild thing, " I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately...
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Patrick Rothfuss
I am not cruel –only truthful.
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Sylvia Plath
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
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Gregory Maguire
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of...
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Philip Pullman
More Quotes By Tennessee Williams
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ..each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add...
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
