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She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... KRISTA RITCHIE
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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anythin... RICHARD BACH
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
I love being on camera. And I love knowing what's going on in the world. Diane Sawyer is my favo... CARRIE UNDERWOOD Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they...
ELLEN MUTH
Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenhe... EDMUND WHITE
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GEOFF JOHNS
His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. The... APRILYNNE PIKE
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he ... J.K. ROWLING
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No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is, 'Well, you know, it's p... ANN COULTER When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
I had my fortune told once at the Great Wall of China. A withered old lady told my fortune - but it ... SARAH ALEXANDER Anyhow, I get distracted a lot," she repeated.
She felt like a dry branch, sticking out o...
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She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuse... JULIA QUINN
A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would b... MATT GROENING
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER
Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert... LAINI TAYLOR
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather... SYLVIA PLATH
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS
She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to ... WHIT STILLMAN
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performi... ARUNDHATI ROY
I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational sys... BRIAN ENO She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g...
JIM HOUDEK
Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. ... TED OLSON
I had a lot of questions, but they were more about the character than the plot. Greg and I talked a ... COURTENEY COX
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that h... LEO TOLSTOY For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities ...
DAVID HENRY HWANG
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what on... NICK HORNBY
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS
When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too. 