A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of. Walter Kirn
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
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Unknown
Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.
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Charlotte Eriksson
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
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Suzanne Collins
Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.
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Chad Sugg
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Walter Kirn
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where...
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
