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A poem can’t do its work if you only read snippets of it.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

Don’t Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her...

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

Be quick, but don’t hurry.

I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

Talk to me. Say something, anything,” he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.”There’s nothing to say.”He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. “Why did you kiss...

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie’s crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

El miedo no te apaga; sino que te despierta.

aku tak habis mengerti, mengapa orang-orang gampang sekali mengata-ngatai pemerintah. Kalau bicara, sekehendak hatinya saja. Apa mereka kira gampang mengelola negara? Mengurusi ratusan juta manusia? Yang semuanya tak bisa diatur. Kalau mereka sendiri yang disuruh...

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque...

Bir ressam için en ideal olanı, Pantheon’un *oculus’ü gibidir.Yüksekten gelen ışık modelin yüzüne, hatta o anlamsız çirkin yüze bile, tatlı bir hava, sanatçının istediği biçimde işleyeceği bir tür güzellik katacaktır…*oculus: (Latince) Mercek, cam.

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.

He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the same. He thought that the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art,...

A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde....

A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word novel in about 999 minutes.

I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.

Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi todos los defectos, que no es cauto abandonarse de ellos.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It’s who we become that gives the...

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel.

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide. I want you to be free, but it is your sorrow that has made a slave of me… I wish to know how to keep you… You...

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a...

As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more...

That thought probably has occurred to Socrates too.

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun...

If I had followed every urge I ever had, I would have had much more sex and killed a lot more people

The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting ourmemories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.

It seemed as if the mountains, wave after wave of them, were like the sea, going outward forever into distance, till, far away, they became engulfed in clouds, and joined—mountain and sky in one. Standing...

Cinta masih sama, tetapi keadaan memaksa untuk bersikap berbeda

But Cait, The Hulk has requested my absence. I believe it best if I cooperate.

All together—move!

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’He stopped; he didn’t know what else to say.‘Yeah? Ah, I know the score, Dad. She wants...

Bana hiç acımayın… Biz, sıradan insanlar, yalnız bir sefer ölürüz. Ama büyük adamlar iki sefer ölürler. Birinci sefer bu dünyayı bırakıp göçtükleri, ikinci sefer de bıraktıkları eserler, yıkılıp kaybolduğu zaman.

If we know ourselves, and know our hearts, we’re always home, anywhere.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

With the right tools, you can write anything …

You Don’t Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

When he told F. of his disgust at the eyelid’s movement, he must have been sixteen. When he decided to study medicine, he must have been nineteen; by then, having already signed on to the...

Tonight I am going to smoke my way to heaven!