I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you lov... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an... CHARLES DE LINT What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like... TOM WAITS There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by... JULIET MARILLIER I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come ... GEORGE FOREMAN recant , v . I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, beca... DAVID LEVITHAN I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would c... LAURA PRITCHETT Sometimes it might feel like a bit of a drag, but ultimately, you're doing what you love, living the... DALE STEWART I do not care about power and wealth, father. I want to marry for love.” “You want to... FELIX ALEXANDER That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are ... JULIA ROBERTS Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very... CHAD HARBACH I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find eac... RAINBOW ROWELL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, ... HARLAN COBEN So here's the truth - I love you. I love everything about you – the way you stick up for people ev... CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something. PATRICK CHAN Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head... LAURA FRASER You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE I don't have all of the answers to the world. I don't know everything about life and marriage and ha... MORDRED Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed... ANN EDWARDS CANNON I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
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SAMUEL BECKETT Was I asleep? Had I slept? SAMUEL BECKETT Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed th... SAMUEL BECKETT The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad... SAMUEL BECKETT I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. SAMUEL BECKETT No symbols where none intended. SAMUEL BECKETT Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual... SAMUEL BECKETT Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. SAMUEL BECKETT The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust SAMUEL BECKETT There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. SAMUEL BECKETT They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. SAMUEL BECKETT It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd di... SAMUEL BECKETT POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future. SAMUEL BECKETT The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al... SAMUEL BECKETT It was fine. I threw 48 pitches and that was about it. The numbers could have been better, but we'll... JOSH BECKETT I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of cou... SAMUEL BECKETT I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no ... SAMUEL BECKETT Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett, Wors... SAMUEL BECKETT I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So... 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Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais." Samuel BECKETT, En a... SAMUEL BECKETT أستطيع أن أميز بين الأصوات الخارجية.أوراق الشجر،تأوه ا... SAMUEL BECKETT On. Stare on. Say on. Be on. Somehow on. Anyhow on. Till dim gone. At long last gone. All at long la... SAMUEL BECKETT Fail better worse now. SAMUEL BECKETT No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its wa... SAMUEL BECKETT Nothing is more real than nothing. SAMUEL BECKETT When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett SAMUEL BECKETT It is excellent news that we will soon be able to increase our supplies of home-produced beef. MARGARET BECKETT VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived... SAMUEL BECKETT He is also Ivan's best man and the whole family is going over to work out wedding arrangements and t... LIAM BECKETT There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because ye... SAMUEL BECKETT The Big Push is for artists who have proven their skill and all they need is exposure. JUSTIN BECKETT