You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
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BEAU ALBRECHTSON Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny lig... LAURA INGALLS WILDER If you give up, you will never know what you could have acheived LIVVY ANDERSON It's no good fooling about with love you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtyi... JOHN OSBORNE It is your own barrier, you set it, and only you can remove it. Remember that. So, do you want to tr... NABIL N. JAMAL Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ... LOUISE BROWN You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind... THOMAS R. STEAGALD When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; no... ELNA BAKER If you can't do it, give up! SIGMUND FREUD Your mind expands when you give, your heart expands when you share, and your soul expands when you a... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you d... AGNES MARTIN When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it ... JOHN TRAVOLTA I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could giv... JENNIFER ASHLEY If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, "Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. S... HIROKO SAKAI Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i... YUN KOUGA Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of y... SHANNON L. ALDER If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. 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Can you take what you need, but take less than y... BRYAN ADAMS Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with. KELLY ROWLAND Nobody could hold the same place in your heart as your sister. Love or hate her, she was the only pe... JESSICA TAYLOR Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack... TIM HOWARD I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I s... LEO TOLSTOY Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside your head and the an... PHILIP T. M. Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside your head and the an... PHILIP T. M. When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c... JILL ANZINGER Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it com... ORISON SWETT MARDEN When you blame others, you give up your power to change. DR. ROBERT ANTHONY When you blame others, you give up your power to change. ROBERT ANTHONY Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ... NEIL GAIMAN
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EDMUND WHITE Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a... EDMUND WHITE Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it... EDMUND WHITE I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho... EDMUND WHITE In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. EDMUND WHITE New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e... EDMUND WHITE Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof... EDMUND WHITE In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ... EDMUND WHITE There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'... EDMUND WHITE The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of... EDMUND WHITE Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t... EDMUND WHITE In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,... EDMUND WHITE I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me... EDMUND WHITE Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned... EDMUND WHITE When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s... EDMUND WHITE I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. EDMUND WHITE I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking... RON WHITE If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my... RON WHITE I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. PATRICK WHITE It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the... GILBERT WHITE I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point... EDMUND WHITE I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much... AARON WHITE We're going to win -- I promise you. AARON WHITE