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It was Crabcalf who, surrounded and walled in by the hundreds of unsold copies of his ill-fated novel, felt that he if anyone should be the judge not only of literature, but all that went on behind the sordid scenes. — Mervyn Peake

I'm the one running the show, you petulant geezer. — Brad McKinniss

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says "A Million Copies Sold," did you ever wonder who bought them? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Standing on an open hill, I imagine muffled footsteps overhead. — John Gardner

Someone was always leaving
and never coming back.
The wooden houses wait like old wives
along this road; they are everywhere,
abandoned, leaning, turning gray. — Lisel Mueller

He warned me that things might get complicated if I ever heard those particular words from you." "We have a problem?" "No, 'I have an idea' was the phrase he told me to watch out for. — Christopher Woods

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship. — Eddie Vedder

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it. — Abraham Verghese

It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas — Lois Lowry

I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every happy memory came rushing back through the blackness illuminating it in brilliant color. — S.G. Holster

There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center. — Alan Autry

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy. — Blaise Pascal

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do. — Mari Evans