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Norman Pearlstine

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-o...
JEFF LEMIRE Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine l...
K. A. APPLEGATE I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET The formula is random, uneven and, for a number of communities, inequitable.
PETER ASHTON Life was a general interest magazine and since its reincarnation, it had always struggled to find it...
DON LOGAN A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to dr...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publis...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest maga...
MICHAEL DIRDA I think if you go out and talk to publishers, there is very much a sense that digital publishing is ...
MIKE SEGROVES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to t...
PIERS ANTHONY I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE It's a natural evolution, a genuine publishing phenomenon and publishers are building projects aroun...
STEPHEN FRASER Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited...
RONALD COASE When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ...
C. S. FORESTER It (the magazine) will trigger a 'disaster'. The publishing should be banned.
HASYIM MUZADI Financially, this is not a pretty picture for us. Despite our efforts and good intentions, we're str...
FLAVIO GONZALEZ We have not paid and we are not paying monthly payments to Karin Stanford. The allegation is $10,000...
JAMES MEEKS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly ...
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NORMAN COUSINS The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the...
NORMAN ANGELL Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thi...
NORMAN COUSINS I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in compe...
NORMAN BRODSKY The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a...
NORMAN MAILER The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your re...
NORMAN COUSINS Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
MARSHA NORMAN Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
NORMAN COUSINS Laughter is inner jogging.
NORMAN COUSINS Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its a...
NORMAN PODHORETZ If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
NORMAN DOUGLAS One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's...
NORMAN MAILER Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been...
NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer...
NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production.
NORMAN BORLAUG Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
RALPH NORMAN Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
NORMAN MAILER The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the...
NORMAN BORLAUG I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of cou...
NORMAN ROCKWELL The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have,...
NORMAN MCLAREN With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF