John Banville
Related I am unaware of the path I am following. I am unaware when the next turn will come. I am unaware of ... NEHA KOTHARI IGOR STRAVINSKY I feel there will be a time. A time when there will be no agony. I will never cry. There will come a... ALEENA YASIN ALLY CONDIE When the world tells us that it is impossible and when the world is falling from underneath us, and ... MORDRED I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that... SARA BAUME CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE DIANA GABALDON ELIZABETH GILBERT In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I le... TIMOTHY FINDLEY TABATHA COFFEY PALOMA FAITH You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW Don't choose to commit yourself to something just to be the best at what you do. Commit yourself bec... ADAM COWLES VINCENT VAN GOGH JAMES PATTERSON I have found that I am happiest when I am being creative...letting source/my gifts/whatever you want... G. BRIAN BENSON His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants. CLIFFORD COHEN PAULO COELHO ARTHUR MILLER Everything is done with Milan, and all that is missing is my signature. When I return from my holida... HERNAN CRESPO (Atlantic) cyclones have been increasing in numbers since 1995, but one can't say with certainty tha... PATRICK GALOIS CRAIG GROESCHEL ALBERT CAMUS JOAN DIDION AKSHAY VASU When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ... JAMES ST. JAMES HERMANN HESSE I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang a... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU VINCENT VAN GOGH I don't mind dieing for humans to save humans, especially when I know I will resurrect. But as of me... EPHDAN FREDERICK BUECHNER There's nothing like playing at home, especially when we have a big crowd here. I think we're going ... BRYAN MULLINS My sisters are all busy with their own lives but at the end of the day, when I am, like, I have eigh... CHLOE DAO There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there w... JUSTINA CHEN REBECCA SOLNIT You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagin... GLEN HANSARD THOMAS MERTON DEYTH BANGER TIM O'BRIEN It's scary, and downing, that I make my best music when I'm going through my depression... At that m... SCOTT MCGOLDRICK ROBERT GRIFFIN III I am the wisest man alive, for I know I consciously know nothing at all. I am the smartest man alive... AKELILE BERHANU ISAAC MARION JOHN GREEN SHAUNA NIEQUIST But when I do snap out of it I won't know it's my last. I'll just be waiting for the next one. ERIC HALLER You know what, I discussed all this and dealt with a lot of it back in Vancouver. And that's somethi... TODD BERTUZZI FRED COUPLES ELIZABETH WURTZEL EVANDER HOLYFIELD JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when... CASSANDRA PETERSON REBECCA SOLNIT I cry when I think of you....... Doesn't that seem like the sweetest thing in the whole world; to he... KAYLA RAE I'm blessed with everything.BRIAN WILSON I think there is a fatigue factor, no doubt about that. Everybody is waiting for things to heat up. ... GARTH JOWETT I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing. PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTë ELISABETH ELLIOT BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and th... PADDY CONSIDINE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I think there's a, you know, certain kind of freedom for me when I get on stage. Maybe it's ... LIV WARFIELD CHRISTY MATHEWSON ELIZA DUSHKU SCOTT WEILAND My dad told me that there are times in this business when it seems like nothing is going to ever go ... BRANDON BERNSTEIN Some days i wake up ready to take one huge risk, push myself past the limits of my mind and body, bu... AMIR RIVEROLL But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I’m done waiting for the pain to be... HEIDI CULLINAN When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world th... JESSE BROWNER it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is t... KATE MCGAHAN I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for ... AL YANKOVIC For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defen... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I know all of the calls and stuff, I just am not the one necessarily calling them out. I usually jus... REGGIE WELLS EDGAR ALLAN POE I'm so involved in the process that sometimes at the end of a day, I can look at the piece on my des... WENDY FROUD I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lo... JASON CLARKE JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN LIV TYLER I don't have all of the answers to the world. I don't know everything about life and marriage and ha... MORDRED But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitem... EDDIE BRACKEN NICHOLAS SPARKS ANONYMOUS I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at... DAMON HILL But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of exc... EDDIE BRACKEN HUGH LAURIE CHRISTY MATHEWSON SASHA COHEN LOIS LOWRY I expect to be perfect. I expect to make every pitch. But at the same time, I know I won't be. There... BILLY WAGNER GUSTAVE FLAUBERT NICHOLAS SPARKS I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon. John wa... JOE POWER ANNE PERRY I think that there are a lot of people waiting for the moment that someone will fight for their righ... AMIR PERETZ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All thi... AVIV NEVO When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going t... MARSHA THOMASON ANAïS NIN
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I love you."
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Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me... 
When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. 
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