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I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.


J.D. Salinger

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GEMMA WILLIAMSON She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and s...
JAMES GRAY And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautif...
NATSUO KIRINO Her future ain't half as beautiful as her past, so she lives in it.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.
BILL MAHER I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A...
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ROB SAVAGE And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were late rotating to her and she knocked them down.
ARNO KIRCHENWITZ She shivered as he left her to go to the fire, and find water and cloths. He leaned into the light, ...
KRISTIN CASHORE If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
As though she bid me stay by her a week.
If sh...
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ERICA SEHYUN SONG Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left...
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL She has handled some of the most sophisticated matters that we've prosecuted. I would describe her a...
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JOHN GREEN So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very ...
JOHN GREEN I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not onl...
DANIELLE STEEL She seems a lot like me. A loner, a thinker, an artist with her life. And it appears as though she's...
COLLEEN HOOVER When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and m...
MARIO TESTINO She was astonishingly beautiful as a young woman. She was the Princess Diana of her age,
BEN PIMLOTT As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me."
"Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, b...
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JOHN GREEN As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, ...
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TAHEREH MAFI When we knocked on her door and said, 'You're going,' she said, 'I'm ready.
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MIRANDA JULY It was elegant and creative and beautiful - it's who she is. Her personality always came out in her ...
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BRIAN CALDWELL My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will rema...
WILLIAM SHATNER And woo her with some spirit when she comes. Say that she rail; why, then, I'll tell her plain, she ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
ANNA WICKHAM Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her me...
JACQUELINE CAREY She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth --or anywhere else.
ELSE LANCHESTER She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fa...
JOHN GREEN When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her,...
AARON SWARTZ Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in...
BRIAN ANDREAS What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP She will be beautiful, she is beautiful for me.
ARDIT BALISHA Scandal had made it easy for Penelope to end the engagement without being jilted. Well, at least, no...
SARAH MACLEAN Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent wom...
ANDIE MACDOWELL I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs ab...
NATASCHA MCELHONE Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick...
MAUREEN JOHNSON And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother ...
KIERSTEN WHITE To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And though to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, chee...
JOHN KEATS It's not her fault. She did exactly what she was asked to do.
BRENT BARTLETT Well, not exactly kind. More... irritating. But he did help me out though, when my boyfriend got a b...
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JOHN KRASINSKI As she was speaking in a loud voice, I came out of my room and listened to her. She told me about wh...
DATUK MICHAEL CHONG Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautif...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sam…”
“What?” she whispered.
“Tell me what to do to fix it.”
She shook he...
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KEARY TAYLOR She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON I still call it just to hear her voice, ... We will never see her beautiful smile again, never hear ...
JANET BAKER You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANON. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANONYMOUS You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her
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PAT CONROY I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
DOUGLAS SIRK She looked at me, and even though she couldn't talk I could see in her eyes that she was trying to a...
BECKY HOLLAND [Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too muc...
ANDREW WILSON I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.
SHAUN WHITE The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
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KELLY BARNHILL She has made almost no statement at all, kept his funeral strictly private, and keeps her own dignif...
PETER JENNINGS I'm not brainwashed." I wish everyone would stop using that word to describe me.
"That's exactl...
JESSICA BRODY She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER I remember her as a beautiful young lady, inside and out. I remember her as someone who was very muc...
CORNELIA KELLEY She was a feminist without knowing anything about the women's movement, ... I love that she refused ...
TOVAH FELDSHUH What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ...
JERRY SPINELLI He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice,...
SARAH J. MAAS She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have stee...
WILKIE COLLINS Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking ...
J.K. ROWLING When she saw me, she ran out the only thing I could understand was Maria. She latched on to me. I la...
JACQUELINE BAKER I was scared of her. She looked so attractive and beautiful and mature.
FRANK BERNDT Our coach told us she would be the X-factor, and she was. She was amazing. We had our hands in her f...
AMY DONOVAN She grinded it out as she has done her whole career.
JULIE GARNER I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ...
CLAY AIKEN That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a du...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She pitched great. If you ask me, she pitched a no-hitter. ... She threw amazing. ... She has very g...
LACEY SCHANZ To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my m...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the bes...
JOYCE MAYNARD If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
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J.D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J.D. SALINGER They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER