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One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope ... — Alice Hoffman

The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented his reputation, largely because of the movie version. Another battle of wills, it was the story of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of lesser composer Antonio Salieri. — Bob Mondello

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been. — Ruth Reichl

Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy. — Max McKeown

Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life — Mario Vargas-Llosa

With the years his dislike of humbug had increased; the orthodoxy he had worn in the 'sixties', as he had worn side-whiskers out of sheer exuberance , had long dropped off, leaving him reverent before three things alone - beauty, upright conduct, and the sense of property; and the greatest of these now was beauty. — John Galsworthy

The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are. — Jack Deere

Sometimes you may undermine yourself when you are worthy but you need to wake up from sleep and know yourself better. — Auliq Ice

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy — Jennifer Gold

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great. — Willa Cather

We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary. — Paul Michael Glaser

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. — David Attenborough

Are you certain they aren't?"
Rose looked for a delicate way to put it.
"Doing the horizontal mumbo?"
Tyler laughed at the look the other two women gave her.
This was her mother, after all. "Mother spent too many years with a man who treated her like crap. She was lonely even when she wasn't alone. If Doctor Yum-Yum could coax her into bed, I'd say more power to her and way to go, Mom! — Mary J. Williams

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear. — Leo Ornstein

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze. — Edward Abbey